Accepting user-submitted content requires some levels of oversight, and faces plenty of perils if that oversight isn’t sufficient. The latest case in point of that came from Portland, Oregon NBC affiliate KGW, owned by Tegna. That station runs a regular “The Good Stuff” 7 p.m. local newscast, complete with viewer-submitted “Throwback Thursday” photos on Thursdays.
Most of the photos they ran this Thursday, which aired at different moments during the half-hour “The Good Stuff” broadcast in between actual good news stories, were fun personal lookbacks. But one, from “Schell VonQuiff” on Facebook, with the caption “boy scouts in the 50s,” featured a highly disturbing racist image. That image was of kids throwing balls or rocks towards a tent with holes and a “hit the n***** baby” sign. It can be seen at 0:21 of the clip below (viewer discretion strongly advised):
That led to the station profusely apologizing on each of their local newscasts Friday. Here’s one of those apologies, from the 11 p.m. news, which also featured comments from Pastor J.W. Matt Hennessee, a co-leader of the Portland chapter of the NAACP.