"Television the Plug-in Drug"

According to Marie Winn in her essay "Television the Plug-in Drug," the TV set has attained the rank of a legal necessity in American society.  When televisions first came out on the market they were too expensive to have more than one.  Everyone would gather around one TV set and watch it together as a family. Now, there's a television in almost every room. Dads in the living room watching the Lakers vs. Celtics game, Moms in the kitchen watching Lifetime, and the children are in their separate rooms watching cartoons like Hannah Montana and Dora the Explorer. As Winn states in her essay, "Through the changes it has made in family life, television emerges as the important influence in children's lives today." Although television is not the only factor that destroys families special quality time, its contribution has caused a great deal of separation.



Now with that, I'm going to go watch TV now. =]