WGN-TV Uses Holocaust ‘Jude’ Image for Yom Kippur Report

Someone in Chicago news station WGN’s production department definitely skipped a high school lesson or two on the Holocaust:

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 CW-affiliated station apologized pretty quickly…

We are truly sorry for inadvertently using an offensive image in our Yom Kippur story. We apologize and deeply regret the error.

— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) September 23, 2015

…but woof, that’s a pretty basic screw-up. Someone’s definitely in trouble over there.

Watch below, via WGN:

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