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Oops. Zooey Deschanel is not the Boston bomber.

A Closed Caption company in the US has apologised to Zooey Deschanel after incorrectly naming her as the Boston bomber.

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2013-04-26_1205A Closed Caption company in the US has apologised to New Girl‘s Zooey Deschanel after incorrectly broadcasting: “Marathon Bombing. He is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel.”

The error was broadcast in the US on FOX News.

The Kansas-based company issued an apology earlier this week with the company’s president Kayla J. Patterson saying they “sincerely apologize” for the incident.

The bombing suspect was actually Dzhokhar Tsarnaev which sounds just the same if you take a swig of bourbon first.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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  4. Probably use the same software that Facebook uses. I noticed it during the Aussie Open (tennis) at the airport. Whoever had the job of transcribing the commentators was making all sorts of errors that weren’t merely typos. My favourite was a post by my partner
    “Actions speak louder than wombats”

  6. Hi David,

    That screenshot looks like Fox 4 Dallas (a Fox affiliate) to me, not Fox News (the national cable news outlet), and the linked article only mentions the Dallas affiliate, so I think it only went to air locally.

    Still, amazing stuff-up, but no worse than captions which aired earlier this year in this country during a live tennis broadcast which indicated that a tennis player was “on heroin”. Live captions seem to be rife with errors, and I’d love to know how much of it is done by voice recognition software and how much input humans actually have in the process.

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