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Hey, Google Images: When Did ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Win a Pulitzer?

In a Google Images search for Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalism we were surprised to see the first result: "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Not that Tobe Hooper's 1974 indie horror film isn't worthy of some kind of award for dramatic photography. (Only an unflinching cameraman is brave enough stand down a chainsaw wielding Leatherface.)

But how did a harbinger to the slasher film genre get mixed in with lionized hard-news war photography like "Napalm Girl" and "Saigon Execution?"

Blame the Google Images algorithm for being unable to discern fact from fiction.

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