CNN's rustic title card for the Texas church shooting draws unfortunate parallel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

CNN's rustic title card for its coverage of the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting is raising eyebrows for the questionable parallel it draws to the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:

While it could just be accidental, even inadvertently tying a tragedy to a fictional slasher film is not a good look. Twenty-six people were killed in the attack on Sunday; a motive has not yet been identified.

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