Sunday, April 21, 2013

Purported TV-caption slipup pegs Zooey Deschanel as alleged Boston bomber

Zooey Deschanel had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombings. Not exactly breaking news, right? Tell that to Peter Ogburn's television set, which, while the radio show producer and writer was watching the manhunt for a second suspect unfold on

A quite unexpected trend: Zooey Deschanel. As the world waited to see if Tsarnaev had been taken into custody, the actress trended because of an image that circulated fierce and fast. It was a photo of a screen on which a close caption translation of a

Hollywood news has learned that ZOOEY DESCHANEL was mistaken for a Boston marathon bombing suspect by closed captioning on a local news broadcast this.

An amusing caption error by FOX affiliate managed to draw some laughs during the final hours of the search for the suspect, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. The caption read, “Marathon bombing, he is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel.

'Marathon bombing, he is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel,' so reads the caption which the 'New Girl' actress calls 'Epic closed captioning FAIL!'

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Purported TV-caption slipup pegs Zooey Deschanel as alleged Boston bomber

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