Tom Brokaw's book about the 60s – which required research assistants numbering more than San Francisco's homeless – hasn't sat well with the gays, who were essentially left out of the book's list of important developments of the decade.

When the controversy hit in November, Brokaw went on CNN to defend his decision to gloss over the gay rights movement, since "the gay rights movement came slightly later. It lifted off during that time and I had to make some choices about what I was going to concentrate on. The big issues were the anti-war movement, the counterculture."

Now, he's backtracking.

In an interview with the Advocate, the still-omnipresent news anchor says he "feel[s] bad" about the decision. "It was not that it wasn’t on my mind, but it was not the defining history of the ‘60s. I was trying to do the five big pillars, which in my judgment were race, war, politics, women, and culture. There were a number of important movements that also grew out of the ‘60s and certainly gay liberation was important among them…I think it was a mistake not to make reference to Stonewall. And we’re going to do that in subsequent editions."

Paperback? Psshaw.