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This is interesting. It's hard to believe people are so gullible and this is compromising their health - but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
It doesn't matter how many times we hear the message - we just want to believe what we see on TV. We even need to believe it on some level. Television is such a big part of our culture and every culture needs storytelling when it comes to death. It makes sense that part of our cultural storytelling about death involves CSI and other crime dramas - where from chaos, order is always restored, the bad guy is always caught, justice is served, and everyone feels safe and even clever.
This MPR article also touches on the a few points we are trying to make in our film, Of Dolls and Murder. In particular, most murder victims knew their killer. We live in a world (and always have) where the people closest to us are the same people who are most likely to kill us. No wonder we turn on the television to escape the reality of our lives.
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