Does Television Cause Murder? The essay "Murder on the Dial: Does Television Set the Killer Loose?" by Neal Peirce starts out with an argument that television causes murders. Peirce backs this up with a study of three countries by Brandon Centerwall. The author points out that in the studies, when children became adults, about ten years after television was introduced, murders began to rise. In South Africa, before television was introduced, murder rates held steady …showed first 75 words of 1051 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1051 total…the field and more firm statistics. The one he gave to use could have been inaccurate. Who knows why people killed other people. Racially motivated, maybe? He said the study was all white people but what if in South Africa people of a different background kill the whites? I would recommend a reader to read it, but do not accept the essay at face value. Look deeper into the essay before you agree or disagree.