{"id":182425,"date":"2015-09-24T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/24\/oops-7\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:12:00","slug":"oops-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/24\/oops-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"172\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/97Ef0cFW\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Someone is getting fired<\/i><\/div>\n<p>On the Chicago TV station WGN, they did a story on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, and their likely soon to be fired graphics guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/24\/business\/wgn-tv-chicago-apologizes-for-nazi-symbol-in-yom-kippur-segment.html\">called up the badge that the Nazis forced Jews to wear in concentration camps<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The news director of a Chicago TV station apologized after a staff member mistakenly chose a symbol of Nazi Germany to illustrate a story about Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cRegrettably, we failed to recognize that the artwork we chose to accompany the story contained an offensive symbol,\u201d the director, Jennifer Lyons, said in an apology on Wednesday. \u201cThis was an unfortunate mistake. Ignorance is not an excuse.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The apology came the morning after Tom Negovan, an anchor with WGN-TV Chicago, read a 20-second description of the holiday. Over his shoulder, viewers could see a graphic of a Star of David badge emblazoned with the German word \u201cJude,\u201d or Jew, on striped material of the kind used in Nazi prisoner uniforms.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Un-dirtyword-believable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is getting fired On the Chicago TV station WGN, they did a story on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, and their likely soon to be fired graphics guy called up the badge that the Nazis forced Jews to wear in concentration camps: The news director of a Chicago TV station apologized after a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,1011,1021,982,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-history","category-religion","category-stupid","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}