Winn, M.“Television the Plug-inDrug”. 50 Essays. Ed.SamuelCohen. 3rd ed.
Boston:Bedford, 2011. pp.447-438. Print.
In this essay, written by Marie Winn, she tells how television is affecting
families in some ways. She claims tv is like a drug, which makes the title
appropriate. Before tv was not as big as it was today. There were only a few
channels and not everyone had them. Now watching television is like a ritual
and it’s isolating kids from their parents. It gets as bad to where kids won't
even make eye contact when speaking because they are watching tv. This whole
concept has a similarity with this whole idea of social media, because when
kids are texting, on the computer or caught up in any type of social media they
are distancing families as done with television as well. Tv is taking the real
quality 'family time' out because it's becoming like a ritual to sit down as a
family and watch tv. Things are not the same as they were. She proves it with
some facts like 60% of families watch while eating a meal, or 78% in family relationships
do not speak while watching tv except during commericals. She is basically
saying families are not as close as they use to or may be due to this 'drug’ television.
This essay just informs all that tv is like a drug and is causing affects in
family relationships.
Boston:Bedford, 2011. pp.447-438. Print.
In this essay, written by Marie Winn, she tells how television is affecting
families in some ways. She claims tv is like a drug, which makes the title
appropriate. Before tv was not as big as it was today. There were only a few
channels and not everyone had them. Now watching television is like a ritual
and it’s isolating kids from their parents. It gets as bad to where kids won't
even make eye contact when speaking because they are watching tv. This whole
concept has a similarity with this whole idea of social media, because when
kids are texting, on the computer or caught up in any type of social media they
are distancing families as done with television as well. Tv is taking the real
quality 'family time' out because it's becoming like a ritual to sit down as a
family and watch tv. Things are not the same as they were. She proves it with
some facts like 60% of families watch while eating a meal, or 78% in family relationships
do not speak while watching tv except during commericals. She is basically
saying families are not as close as they use to or may be due to this 'drug’ television.
This essay just informs all that tv is like a drug and is causing affects in
family relationships.
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