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Initech

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Sun Apr 21, 2013, 03:31 PM Apr 2013

Fox Affiliates' Closed Captioning Accidentally Names Zooey Deschanel As Marathon Suspect

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 his local Fox station, misidentified the 19-year-old man police were looking for as...

"Marathon bombing, he is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel," read the errant caption, which flubbed the name of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, who was ultimately arrested Friday night after he was found hiding in a boat behind a home in Watertown, Mass.

http://www.eonline.com/news/410190/boston-manhunt-boo-boo-zooey-deschanel-called-a-suspect-in-quot-epic-closed-captioning-fail-quot


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