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Chicago TV Station Wishes Jews A Happy Yom Kippur With Nazi Emblem
TPM ^ | 9-24-15 | Katherine Krueger

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; chicago; fail; illinois; jew; jewish; nazi; yellowstarofdavid; yomkippur
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To: miss marmelstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00nBSNIPwg


21 posted on 09/24/2015 7:16:29 AM PDT by mkjessup (If you really support Ted Cruz, don't be trashing Trump, Cruz doesn't, why should you?)
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To: An.American.Expatriate
It's not the first time..

Details?

Look at the map and look at the name they are using...

22 posted on 09/24/2015 7:16:46 AM PDT by BerniesFriend (I am BerniesFriend, however it's really Bernadette, NOT Bernie Sanders friend!!!!!!!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Appalling ignorance, even by today’s standards.

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.

23 posted on 09/24/2015 7:20:08 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: SJackson

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.


24 posted on 09/24/2015 7:21:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: BerniesFriend

Probably the same idiot.


25 posted on 09/24/2015 7:21:16 AM PDT by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: tflabo
Was someone playing a joke and feigned ‘ignorance’? Wouldn’t put it past the devious mind of a rabid, jew hating leftist.

Possible though I'd give them the benefit of the doubt

26 posted on 09/24/2015 7:22:41 AM PDT by SJackson (Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Mike Tyson)
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To: BerniesFriend

ahh ... I thought you meant that it wasn’t the first time that WGN posted something blatantly anti-Semitic.


27 posted on 09/24/2015 7:23:28 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate

Look Carefully at the map of South America. LOL!


28 posted on 09/24/2015 7:23:29 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SJackson
The future is now:


29 posted on 09/24/2015 7:23:53 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: SJackson

That’s worse than Whole Foods advertising their lox as perfect for Yom Kippur breakfast.


30 posted on 09/24/2015 7:25:07 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: left that other site

No, no! That’s South Africa! Can’t you tell? It says so. See my previous post...


31 posted on 09/24/2015 7:25:47 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: SJackson

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.


32 posted on 09/24/2015 7:27:27 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: IYAS9YAS

Good point.


33 posted on 09/24/2015 7:27:34 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: SJackson
They thought it appropriate, because they just gave nuclear license to an UNDEFEATED Nazi ally.

You may have forgotten, but they haven't.

34 posted on 09/24/2015 7:29:36 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: mkjessup

That’s funny!


35 posted on 09/24/2015 7:31:27 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: SJackson

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.


36 posted on 09/24/2015 7:33:32 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: SJackson

Chicago news station. Ignorant employees and management.

What’s the chance that the management are registered Republicans?


37 posted on 09/24/2015 7:34:39 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

LOL...Global Warming is causing the Continenbts to Change Shape!

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38 posted on 09/24/2015 7:37:37 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate
I'm surprised WGN didn't claim that this guy was responsible.



39 posted on 09/24/2015 7:38:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Lx
Wait until their live Thanksgiving broadcast.

That would be Cincinnati.

40 posted on 09/24/2015 7:47:40 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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