Chicago TV Station Wishes Jews A Happy Yom Kippur With Nazi Emblem

TPM ^ | 9-24-15 | Katherine Krueger

[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.

[onedoug]

In other words, no Jews work here.

[ru4liberty]

Public schools.

[OKSooner]

OMG!! Even a goyim gentile from Oklahoma would know better...

F-ing IDIOTS!

[Honcho Bongs]

One of my favorite movies! Thanks.

[Dante3]

My thought also.

[Uncle Miltie]

Americans are generally remarkably stupid.

Especially those attracted to “journalism”.

[Lera]

Shocking but not really surprising for a city that thought electing Obama would be a good idea . We have really become a nation of some kind of stupid .

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s why part-time unpaid bloggers generally do a better job of covering the news than paid professional “journalists”.

[fredhead]

“Further proof that the LSM doe snot have 2 brain cells to rub together.”

Deer boogers? I just love typos sometimes.

[Kommodor]

Wow ... Godzilla meets ... what the?

Is this really a thing?

[polymuser]

Well, at least that’s the only such mistake they’ve ever made...

[verga]

My spelling is above average, my typing is well below average.

[BraveMan]

[Slings and Arrows]

WGN always was the “Short Bus” of Chicago stations.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Slings and Arrows]

[mikey_hates_everything]

Watch the movie “Idiocracy” and you’ll get it.

[SaveFerris]

Good Lord Almighty.

Publik skools, I guess.

[PapaBear3625]

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.

Doing a google image search for jewish star of david has that coming up as the second image.

[dfwgator]

“First to the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world! ... But then an even greater force emerged: The un! And the un un-nazied the world! Forever!”