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Oregon TV station apologizes after inadvertently showing racist image during program highlighting good news
Today ^ | Feb. 17, 2024 | Feb. 17, 2024

Posted on 02/17/2024 4:38:14 PM PST by nickcarraway

KGW has a policy of thoroughly screening all content for standards and accuracy before broadcast, but failed to uphold it, the station said.

A television station in Portland, Oregon, apologized Friday for inadvertently showing a racist image during a program aimed at highlighting positive stories.

KGW-TV displayed the image Thursday evening during “The Good Stuff,” which includes a “Throwback Thursday” segment sharing “cheesy, silly, or memorable” photos submitted by viewers.

“The image, seemingly from the 1950s, depicted children throwing balls towards a sign prominently displaying (a racial slur),” the station said Friday in a statement posted to its website. “We understand the profound hurt this image inflicted upon our viewers and staff, particularly members of our Black community. To those who were exposed to the image and were hurt by it, we offer our sincerest apologies.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepublic; lol; media; oregon; portland; tightwad
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1 posted on 02/17/2024 4:38:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It’s always bad to show too much Fani.


2 posted on 02/17/2024 4:47:09 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like the TV station got trolled by whoever sent in the photo.


3 posted on 02/17/2024 4:49:31 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: nickcarraway

It really is time for people to grow up. All this is doing is erasing our past making everyone idiots about our culture.

Not saying to celebrate it but just stop hiding it. Take the power away from such things by not mystifying it.


4 posted on 02/17/2024 4:49:40 PM PST by Skwor
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To: nickcarraway

Useless without the image


5 posted on 02/17/2024 4:51:03 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: nickcarraway

You can find it on Awful Announcing. It’s pretty bad and hard to understand how they missed it.


6 posted on 02/17/2024 4:53:47 PM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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To: nickcarraway

Deliberately done to keep the racial narrative in the news.


7 posted on 02/17/2024 4:59:43 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Nateman

” the image”

Let’s try and guess ....

could it be a movie poster for TARZAN?

An add for OUR GANG?

it is a mystery ... does anyone know?


8 posted on 02/17/2024 5:00:36 PM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: Dahoser

See post #7


9 posted on 02/17/2024 5:01:15 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Right Brother
see post# 7

o ya .... I was not expecting that ...

How that got through is just a total closter flock

I think we have had enough racial division, relations were better before oblam blam started stirring the pot... and I think it's ridicules to try and get rid of the history.
Live and learn ... but come on guys ...
somebody is really trying to fan the flames with this one.

I notice that the blood tribe(fbi) was prancing about in Nashville today too. .... ? Is something up?

10 posted on 02/17/2024 5:14:14 PM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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11 posted on 02/17/2024 5:15:24 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Nateman

Yep


12 posted on 02/17/2024 5:15:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dahoser

Big deal. We’ve become a nation of snowflakes.


13 posted on 02/17/2024 5:17:16 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Dahoser
It’s pretty bad and hard to understand how they missed it.

Idiots run TV stations. How about the time an Asian airliner crashed at San Francisco Int'l Airport, and KTVU-2 scooped everyone with the names of the flight crew. Something like this.

"Captain Sum Ting Wong, Captain Wee Tu Lowe, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bam Ding Ow"

Got past all the editors, and the female anchor announcing it.

14 posted on 02/17/2024 5:25:54 PM PST by roadcat
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To: nickcarraway; Nateman
I do not promote this in any way, shape or form, but if posting it as a matter of discussion for an event which actually took place in the past to learn from it is forbidden even here...

...then we have FAR bigger problems (as in how far backwards we have gone).

Watch here:

Portland, Oregon NBC affiliate KGW ran a viewer-submitted photo prominently featuring the n-word during the "Throwback Thursday" portion of their "The Good Stuff" good news segment. It can be seen at 0:21 below. They've since spent a lot of time apologizing.

15 posted on 02/17/2024 5:42:18 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: conservative_cyclist; ten18; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
16 posted on 02/17/2024 6:04:54 PM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: nickcarraway

“To those who were exposed to the image and were hurt by it,
Grow up, and quit whining!”


17 posted on 02/17/2024 6:05:21 PM PST by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: nickcarraway

I remember White Only restaurants and fountains in Oregon.


18 posted on 02/17/2024 6:34:03 PM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: nickcarraway

Did they hit it?


19 posted on 02/17/2024 6:35:14 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: logi_cal869

They just misspelled the name of an African country.

If you asked a hundred woke youngsters to spell the name of that country probably half of them would get it wrong.

Lol.


20 posted on 02/17/2024 6:46:25 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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