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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.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)This goes beyond even gawdawful.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)except the on-air readers and Chopper pilot Dave.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)With a wall
Matariki
(18,775 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)They have IQs lower than their waist size.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)Now, back to the Studio, Chopper Pilot Dave.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Weird.
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)I am sure some will wonder "what's the big deal?". I must say I am a bit surprised this was WGN Chicago, which has a pretty large Jewish community.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)a few years ago.
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)I can't keep up with who bought what, and is related to whom, and why they bought X, but not Y, but really did, secretly, buy Y.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)WGN = "World's Greatest Newspaper".
Also, WLS (ABC affiliate) = "World's Largest Store" (Marshall Field).
rsdsharp
(9,186 posts)did stand for World's Largest Store, but it was Sears, not Marshall Field. Sears put WLS on the air in 1924, and sold it to Prairie Farmer Magazine in 1928. ABC bought it in 1960.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)if you were young and living on L. Michigan.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)"WGN-TV, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 19), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the flagship television property of the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media, which also owns radio station WGN (720 AM) and local cable news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGN-TV
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)as part of their degree plans.
Mister Ed
(5,940 posts)The star appears to be sewn onto the striped fabric of the uniforms the Jews were made to wear in the death camps.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Really?
Teh stupid... It burns!!!
Chiyo-chichi
(3,581 posts)Words fail me.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Someone down in graphics is looking for a job at McDonalds now...
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)packman
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longship
(40,416 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or was that just coincidental?
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)and besides, they were played by Jewish actors.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Haven't you ever watched the show?
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)To the best of my knowledge, none of the Luftwaffe characters in that show were members of the Nazi party. Werner Klemper stipulated in his contract that Colonel Klink should always be a loser.
Do you dislike Mel Brooks' The Producers as well?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I think you have may have misinterpreted my comment.
I was just wondering if the poster included those characters on purpose - for the irony/humor of it.
Because the actors who portrayed Sgt Schultz and Colonel Klink (John Banner and Werner Klemperer, respectively) were both Jews who fled Hitler's Germany. It's pretty common knowledge that all the major German/Nazi characters on the show, including Major Hochstetter, the Gestapo man, and General Burkhalter, were played by Jewish actors.
It's called irony.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Glad I was able to pick up on the reference!
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)And they were able to report it with a straight face.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)for REAL? And actually went out on the teevee machine?
There was an intern working for the NTSB that sent that and then confirmed it. The news agency thought it was legit since it was confirmed.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)maybe public flogging had some good points.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I opened this thread expecting to see the Nazi swastika, but the Yellow Star is probably as much if not more offensive. Congrats WGN...that is the worst thing I've ever seen done on the news!
Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Maybe just a
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Last night we ran a story to recognize Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. The artwork chosen to accompany the story came from a graphics image bank. Regrettably, we failed to recognize that the image was an offensive symbol.
We are extremely embarrassed and we deeply apologize to our viewers and to the Jewish community for this mistake. Ignorance is not an excuse.
Please know we have reviewed our in-house policies and made changes to do everything we can to avoid such mistakes happening in the future. Thank you for your understanding. We promise to do better.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)How is that possible?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)or wherever they get their interns from.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Or whoever made the decision to run that photo.