Selective Critique of “Television: The Plug-In Drug” Since television’s debut, over half a century ago, the first generation of audience anticipated this new device to radically change family life. In “Television the Plug-In Drug,” Marie Winn maintains that this cultural addiction is one of the main contributing factors to the deterioration of meaningful relationships and communication skills within the family (438-437). Winn argues that watching television has become a custom in which individuals spend more time with the television rather than their own family, which produces an unhealthy relationship among family members. She also claims that television abolishes the unique quality that sets apart one family from another. However, I find
