Chicago television station WGN, a cable TV “superstation” seen nationwide, used a Nazi badge that Jews were required to wear in the course of commemorating Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, to its viewers on a newscast.  Evidently someone in the graphics department was told to find a Star of David, the symbol of Judaism, and nobody in the station recognized that the image chosen was used to persecute Jews in Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries. Others were not so clueless:   Holy crap, @WGNNews, this is your stock photo for a Jewish holiday?? Nobody thought that's a bad choice of photo? pic.twitter.com/z7BNuvGybS— Marc Karlinsky (@MarcKarlinsky) September 23, 2015 The station apologized on Twitter and on-air: Nobody is accusing the station of anti-Semitism, but appalling ignorance is now standard in much of the media.  “Never forget” the Holocaust lasted for approximately half a century, to replaced by a...(Read Full Post)