The SideshowZooey Deschanel misidentified as Boston Marathon bombing suspect by Fox TV’s closed-captioning
People watching live coverage of Friday's manhunt in Boston on Dallas-Fort Worth's Fox affiliate with the sound off may have been startled when the network's closed-captioning identified actress Zooey Deschanel as the marathon bombing suspect.
"He is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel," a caption shown on the local network read as police and FBI agents searched homes in Watertown, Mass., for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
"Oh come on," Peter Ogburn, a radio producer, wrote on Twitter, linking to a screengrab of the flub.
The "New Girl" star was alerted to the mixup through Twitter by fellow actor Joel McHale.
"Whoa!" Deschanel wrote. "Epic closed captioning FAIL!"
Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL! “@joelmchale: Oh my RT @peterogburn: twitter.com/peterogburn/st…”
— zooey deschanel (@ZooeyDeschanel) April 20, 2013
