Amidst the stellar journalism that was happening all over the place during coverage of the bombing in Boston, Caption Solutions TV captioning service erroneously captioned Dallas-Fort Worth Fox network affiliate KDFW's coverage with: "...marathon Bombing, he is 19-year-old Zooey Deschanel." How Zooey Deschanel showed up instead of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a mystery lost to the sands of
Anyway. Caption Solutions has apologized to Deschanel for the error.
Meanwhile, the NY Post, which featured teenager Salah Barhoun and another young man on its cover under the headline "BAG MEN," despite the fact they had nothing whatsoever to do with the bombing, still has not apologized to Barhoun.
So, just to be clear, Zooey Deschanel gets an apology for a captioning mistake, but the NY Post still hasn't apologized to Salah Barhoun for its cover photo. COOL.
For the record: I'm not saying that Zooey Deschanel didn't deserve an apology. I'm saying that Salah Barhoun DOES.
And, yeah, I realize the NY Post is a mountainous heap of fetid garbage, but I don't believe a habit of indecency is a justification for continued indecency. I expect more.
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