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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Look at the map and look at the name they are using...
I don't know. Doing a simple Bing search on "Jewish Symbol" resulted in only one symbol similar to that, and that was in a banner under the suggested search term "Jewish Holocaust" not anywhere in the actual image results of over 100 images on the first page. Google images were similar. With one having to scroll quite a bit until you found an image like that. I'm seeing less ignorance, and more malice here. I'd be looking into who put that segment together.
This is a prime example of the dumbing-down of our education system. Somebody just picked out a symbol from Google Images and had no idea what it meant. Astonishing stupidity and lack of editorial control over content.
Probably the same idiot.
Possible though I'd give them the benefit of the doubt
ahh ... I thought you meant that it wasn’t the first time that WGN posted something blatantly anti-Semitic.
Look Carefully at the map of South America. LOL!
That’s worse than Whole Foods advertising their lox as perfect for Yom Kippur breakfast.
No, no! That’s South Africa! Can’t you tell? It says so. See my previous post...
The image is actually worse than is being said.
If the yellow star with “Jude” on it wasn’t bad enough, the veritcal striped background is from the uniforms death camp prisoners wore.
Good point.
You may have forgotten, but they haven't.
That’s funny!
Religion isn’t their strong suit. A few years back, they reported on the case of a female United Methodist minister who came out as an active lesbian, and was suspended and tried by a church court. She was cleared and returned to her church. WGN reported that a United Methodist “reverend” was back in her church and “celebrated Mass” for the first time in six months. I wrote to the editor and told him that if she had “celebrated Mass,” then the UMC had yet another problem. He acknowledge the mistake and the sloppy work.
They also once referred to the Ecumenical Patriarch as the “Orthodox Pope.” He isn’t.
When I catch their mistakes and sloppiness in reporting on something I know about, it makes me have doubts about their reporting in general. I don’t mean because of their bias. I mean because of their ignorance.
Chicago news station. Ignorant employees and management.
What’s the chance that the management are registered Republicans?
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That would be Cincinnati.
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