For a few moments the quirky starlet was mistakenly identified by a local Fox News affiliate as the Boston Marathon bomber. Not because anyone actually believed Deschanel to be the culprit, but because the auto-correct, speech-to-text magic that translates live news broadcasts into closed captioning thought her name sounded like Chechen bomber Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.
Say it fast enough and you can start to see - or rather hear - how the honest mistake could have been made.
NPR’s Peter Ogburn first tweeted the screen-capture pic, which Deschanel retweeted:
Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL! “@joelmchale: Oh my RT @peterogburn: twitter.com/peterogburn/st…”
— zooey deschanel (@ZooeyDeschanel) April 20, 2013
It’s okay though: Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz quickly assembled the team from Bones to prove Zooey’s innocence.
