Posted on 09/24/2015 7:01:49 AM PDT by SJackson
A Chicago television news station made a truly unfortunate art choice to accompany a segment on the Jewish High Holidays on Wednesday: the yellow Star of David that Jews were legally required to wear during the Holocaust.
The stock photo was first flagged by a Chicago editor, who posted a screenshot of the WGN news broadcast online.
The station responded to apologize for the art choice about 30 minutes later, and said in a tweet the image was "inadvertently" used.
In a statement posted online, the station said the picture came from its image bank, and they "failed to recognize that the image was an offensive Nazi symbol."
"We are extremely embarrassed and we deeply apologize to our viewers and to the Jewish community for this mistake," the WGN statement said. "Ignorance is not an excuse."
The station was also taking apologies to its viewers out of the public sphere, with "J. Lyons, News Dir." directing individual users to direct message WGN's account.
European Jews were legally required to wear the yellow badge on their clothing beginning after Kristallnacht in November, 1938, but the anti-Semitic practice of forcing Jewish citizens to don an identifying badge dates back to the 13th century.
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Appalling ignorance, even by today’s standards.
This sort of thing happens when you hire blonde interns based on their cup size.
I’m sorry but that’s funny! The news world is apparently run by the Ted Baxter’s of the world.
That’s a Chicago Public School education for you.
Well at least it is a real apology - not the crappy “we are sorry if anyone was offended” ...
I like that they even said “Ignorance is no excuse”.
Still hard to believe that no one thought this was not such a hot idea before it went over the air ....
Wait until their live Thanksgiving broadcast.
A symptom of not teaching history anymore.
I don’t know. Appalling ignorance is our default setting. If they sent some intern type to pull up “something Jewish” for an image, I can see it happening in blissful ignorance. Their fault lies in not having someone with sense review the selection.
On the other hand this did happen in Chicago.
Was someone playing a joke and feigned ‘ignorance’? Wouldn’t put it past the devious mind of a rabid, jew hating leftist.
All recorded history began in 1961. Anything prior to 11AUG1961 is mythology and should be viewed with skepticism.
Ignorance is bliss I suppose. Looks like a happy image, even has a foreign language word for Jew that kind of looks like something they’ve seen somewhere, must be some Jewish cultural thing. Good to go.
Another example of how government education by liberals is actually nothing more than indoctrination.
OTOH, it should remind them what the chief financial sponsor of the present Chicago thug in charge did in his youth . . .
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How many members of the crew looked at that and thought it was acceptable? Further proof that the LSM doe snot have 2 brain cells to rub together.
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