Zooey Deschanel Was A Boston Bombing Suspect, According To Local Fox Station's Closed

[TruthOut10]

Clarification: The headline on this article has been amended to reflect that the mistake about Zooey Deschanel being a suspect was made during a news broadcast on a local Fox affiliate, not the national cable news network.

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Zooey Deschanel got quite the shock yesterday when she was mistakenly identified as one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings on a local Fox News station.

According to Peter Ogburn, while the radio show producer and writer was watching the manhunt for a second suspect unfold on Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, the "New Girl" star's name was misidentified in the closed captioning as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.

Zooey Deschanel Was A Boston Bombing Suspect, According To Local Fox Station's Closed Captions (PHOTO)

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[TemplarKormac]

So are we trying to start something here? One can only wonder with that avatar of yours.

 

[Lipush]

Now that's funny!

 

[Rozman]

I always thought she was up to something...
Her with those big eyes..

 

[Noomi]

For such a huge mistake, considering the issue being reported, I wouldn't be surprised if she sued the pants off them.

 

[Rozman]

I will assume at this point it was a mistake and a big friggin one at that..
Will that be grounds for a lawsuit.
Maybe the local network or the parent company has apologized.
Keep in mind that she has a TV show on the FOX network.
So yeah they deliberately went out of their way to mess with her?

 

[Oldguy]

Zooey Deschanel can terrorize me any day.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

He had z's in his name and so did she; just an auto correct in the closed captioning. No harm, no foul.

 

[Connery]

I liked her in "Elf".

Bad girl>>>

 

[Katzndogz]

Has anyone proved that this was intentional?

 

[Lipush]

zooey deschanel can terrorize me any day. :d

lol!

 

[hjmick]

*Closed captioning is embedded in the television signal and becomes visible when you use a special decoder, either as a separate appliance or built into a television set. The decoder lets viewers see captions, usually at the bottom of the screen, that will tell them what is being said or heard on their favorite TV shows. Since 1993, television sets with screens of 13 inches or more that are sold in the United States must have built-in decoders, under the Television Decoder Circuitry Act...

So isn't it more likely that Zooey's name was the closest thing an automated system could come up with? It was a local affiliate so it is unlikely the had a stenographer on hand to type the closed captioning...

 

[Pop23]

Zooey Deschanel can terrorize me any day.

And I will be more than happy to do the interrogation!

 

[Noomi]

Zooey Deschanel can terrorize me any day.

I much prefer her sister!

 

[WUN]

Clarification: The headline on this article has been amended to reflect that the mistake about Zooey Deschanel being a suspect was made during a news broadcast on a local Fox affiliate, not the national cable news network.

Story continues below.

Zooey Deschanel got quite the shock yesterday when she was mistakenly identified as one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings on a local Fox News station.

According to Peter Ogburn, while the radio show producer and writer was watching the manhunt for a second suspect unfold on Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, the "New Girl" star's name was misidentified in the closed captioning as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.

Zooey Deschanel Was A Boston Bombing Suspect, According To Local Fox Station's Closed Captions (PHOTO)

I would think anyone who watches TV regularly or saw 'Almost Famous' would catch that mistake on their own. Do you know how many times news stations have embarrassingly put the wrong picture with the wrong caption?

 

[Zona]

For such a huge mistake, considering the issue being reported, I wouldn't be surprised if she sued the pants off them.

Just like the Saudi that was at gun point for absolutely no reason other than being saudi at a marathon. Imagine his life now.

 

[Zona]

He had z's in his name and so did she; just an auto correct in the closed captioning. No harm, no foul.

Says you.

 

[Zona]

Has anyone proved that this was intentional?

Maybe not intentional, but this happens all the time at fox. Need links? And its always the same excuse.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

For such a huge mistake, considering the issue being reported, I wouldn't be surprised if she sued the pants off them.

What fun that would be.

Gotta love those idiots at fux. Remember the NY Post printed a front page photo of two innocent guys as the bombers. Hope they sue too.

They never seem to have a ******* clue. We watched a bit of the Gretchen show while the manhunt was going on and she had no idea what was happening. She kept saying they caught both alive, then she changed to saying they only got one alive. We were all laughing so hard - we finally had to switch to an actual news station.

No wonder rw's never have a clue.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Has anyone proved that this was intentional?

You mean that they tried to type the names of the real suspects and it just kinda morphed and they didn't know until it was on the screen? Yeah, that's it. THAT's how it happened. LOL

How about the print photo on the front page of the NYPost of the "bag men"? Another "accident"? Ya think?