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Regular readers of the Front Line may recall the number of times that FAUX Noise has deliberately made "mistakes" in their alleged news coverage, often identifying Republican politicians caught committing crimes as "Democrats".
But during the coverage of the Boston Marathon terrorism attacks, FAUX might have even topped their own previous levels of stupidity, naming a star of one of their own TV sitcoms as the suspect.......
But during the coverage of the Boston Marathon terrorism attacks, FAUX might have even topped their own previous levels of stupidity, naming a star of one of their own TV sitcoms as the suspect.......
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 misidentified 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!"
"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!"
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