The closed-captioning service which misidentified Zooey Deschanel as as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects apologized to the "New Girl" actress
on Tuesday. The closed-captioning FUBAR was seen last Friday, as authorities continued their manhunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Lawrence, Kan.-based Caption Solutions says it -- and its captioner -- "deeply regret" the error. Company president Kala J. Patterson added, in a statement issued Tuesday, they "sincerely apologize for this error." It was unclear what exactly went wrong or how the caption was made to read Zooey Deschanel instead of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose name (quite obviously) does not resemble the actress' name at all.
The erroneous captioning -- as shown above -- appeared on Fox affiliate KDFW in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, stating the following:
Marathon Bomber. He is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel
Twitter went wild over the issue, with Deschanel learned of the TV captioning blunder over the weekend and
tweeted: "Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL!"
Credit for the first tweet regarding the erroneous closed-captioning text goes to Peter Ogburn, who appears on the "Bill Press Show" on Current TV and on the radio. Ogburn
wrote "Oh come on, Fox" after first seeing the mistake.
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