article_snippet.sent: The admission came the day after Ben Affleck apologized for lobbying for the removal of the truth about my family past from Finding Your RootsYour Roots.
article_snippet.sent: Writing on Ben Affleck personal account Ben Affleck said: 'Lots of people have been asking who the guy was.
article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck has apologized after Ben Affleck demanded information about a slave-owning relative be withheld from a PBS show about a slave-owning relative ancestry .
article_snippet.sent: How Ben Affleck finally came clean .
article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck took to Facebook to issue Ben Affleck apology .
article_snippet.sent: The affair has severely embarrassed the actor, a high-profile campaigner for liberal causes, who runs a charity for Africa.
article_snippet.sent: Last night the actor, a high-profile campaigner for liberal causes, who runs a charity for Africa apologized for asking producers to leave out the name in a post on Facebook, while also explaining the actor, a high-profile campaigner for liberal causes, who runs a charity for Africa reasons for the actor, a high-profile campaigner for liberal causes, who runs a charity for Africa decision. '
article_snippet.sent: Affleck went on to say Affleck lobbied for that information to be withheld after filming the episode. '
article_snippet.sent: Affleck is just one of the many celebrities once again under fire after WikiLeaks sorted all the hacked Sony emails into a system that makes the many celebrities easier for the public to search.
article_snippet.sent: They have yet to release a statement on They findings or to make clear when They will be reported, and whether They will quiz Affleck.
article_snippet.sent: Until now Ben Affleck had been a Harvard University academic best known for the 'beer summit' organized by President Obama when a policeman tried to arrest Ben Affleck because of a 911 call about men breaking and entering a home - which was in fact Prof Gates' own home.
article_snippet.sent: However today Ben Affleck was described as 'diminished' in the New York Times by Frank Bruni, the White House columnist, as 'diminished' by the affair which 'exposed Gates, a trusted authority on the African-American experience, to accusations that Ben Affleck'd sold out'.
article_snippet.sent: PBS declined today to offer any guarantees that Ben Affleck would remain host of the show.
article_snippet.sent: On Friday the show issued a statement on Ben Affleck behalf but today said it was not responsible for Ben Affleck public statements.
article_snippet.sent: Gates, aside from the decision Ben Affleck made – and it looks to me like a bad one – also, in my opinion, violated the well-known "no surprises doctrine" for public affairs programming and many other things by not informing PBS about these demands by Affleck and'.
article_snippet.sent: Ben Affleck added: 'As for PBS, PBS just struck me as asleep at the switch when this broke.
highlights_snippet.sent: Oscar winner apologized last night for having PBS show cut revelation of Ben Affleck slave-owning roots, which was first revealed last week by Daily Mail Online .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: I was embarrassed,' Ben Affleck wrote on Facebook .
  