In Marie Winn’s “Television: The-Plug in Drug”, she establishes the position that television has the most important influence in children’s lives today with the contrast of family life before and after the emergence of television, and how television has affected family dynamics, with television replacing family interaction. This shows by the way families interact with each other now and how they used to. Winn uses many examples to get show her belief that television has negatively impacted kids lives.
She supports her position when she discusses the role that television takes in children’s lives when she states that, “Through the changes it has made in family life, television emerges as the important influence in children’s lives today” (Winn …show more content…
This shows that researchers have looked at how television affects the way a person reacts in their everyday life. A student arriving home who might have a homework assignment to do may instead decide to waste their time away with watching their favorite television program. Those patterns in one’s life could extend to how one interacts with their family. She mentions how “Home and family life have changed in important ways since the advent of television” (Winn 466). That appeals to the reader’s idea of family because families have special bonds with each other, and television changes those bonds. Television also had an effect on culture and has changed the very nature of it. Studies show that “... almost 60 percent of all families watch television during meals…” (Winn 472). That shows a change in a family’s relationships by television. They do not interact like they did before television came into their …show more content…
She uses quotes from television critics who said that in 50 years, television would change children's’ daily behaviors. She then goes to explain about how television has changed the overall dynamic of American families. In the 1950s families used to watch television as a family, but many now watch separately, with many families owning two, or up to three sets. Television changed the ways that a family interacts with one another over the course of fifty years. Parents now start to realize that television serves as “... the medium’s dominant role in the family serves to anesthetize parents into accepting their family’s diminished state…” (Winn 473). Parents even begin to accept the fact that television diminishes the state of their family, and that they can do nothing about it. Winn uses that to further prove her point that television influences kids lives by making them not want to spend time with their family. Kids would rather sit down and watch television than spend time with their families. Very different family dynamics existed fifty years ago, when kids would spend significantly more time with their families.The rising popularity of television shows “family time” has turned into more of a myth. In most families “... those rituals and pastimes that once gave family life its special quality have become more and more uncommon” (Winn 470). Nothing makes families special anymore because television has taken place of
She supports her position when she discusses the role that television takes in children’s lives when she states that, “Through the changes it has made in family life, television emerges as the important influence in children’s lives today” (Winn …show more content…
This shows that researchers have looked at how television affects the way a person reacts in their everyday life. A student arriving home who might have a homework assignment to do may instead decide to waste their time away with watching their favorite television program. Those patterns in one’s life could extend to how one interacts with their family. She mentions how “Home and family life have changed in important ways since the advent of television” (Winn 466). That appeals to the reader’s idea of family because families have special bonds with each other, and television changes those bonds. Television also had an effect on culture and has changed the very nature of it. Studies show that “... almost 60 percent of all families watch television during meals…” (Winn 472). That shows a change in a family’s relationships by television. They do not interact like they did before television came into their …show more content…
She uses quotes from television critics who said that in 50 years, television would change children's’ daily behaviors. She then goes to explain about how television has changed the overall dynamic of American families. In the 1950s families used to watch television as a family, but many now watch separately, with many families owning two, or up to three sets. Television changed the ways that a family interacts with one another over the course of fifty years. Parents now start to realize that television serves as “... the medium’s dominant role in the family serves to anesthetize parents into accepting their family’s diminished state…” (Winn 473). Parents even begin to accept the fact that television diminishes the state of their family, and that they can do nothing about it. Winn uses that to further prove her point that television influences kids lives by making them not want to spend time with their family. Kids would rather sit down and watch television than spend time with their families. Very different family dynamics existed fifty years ago, when kids would spend significantly more time with their families.The rising popularity of television shows “family time” has turned into more of a myth. In most families “... those rituals and pastimes that once gave family life its special quality have become more and more uncommon” (Winn 470). Nothing makes families special anymore because television has taken place of