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Zooey Deschanel caption confuses actress for Boston bombing suspect

By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com
Zooey Deschanel attends the Fox Press Tour All-Star Party in Pasadena, California on January 8, 2012. UPI/Phil McCarten
1 of 2 | Zooey Deschanel attends the Fox Press Tour All-Star Party in Pasadena, California on January 8, 2012. UPI/Phil McCarten | License Photo

In a week of high-profile reporting mistakes, a local Fox station may have made the funniest, and most harmless.

During the final standoff between police and 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the closed captioner for Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth substituted Tsarnaev's for that of actress Zooey Deschanel.

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To be fair, no one is sure how to pronounce Zooey Deschanel's name either.

Grabbed by radio producer Peter Ogburn, the screenshot of the error rocketed around the social media sphere as a welcome moment of levity.

Deschanel responded, calling the error an "epic closed captioning FAIL!"

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