Citation: Winn, Marie. "Television: The Plug-In Drug." Dialogues: An Arguement Rhetoric and Reader. Ed. Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger. Longman: Boston, 2011. Print.
Summary: In Marie Winn's piece "Television: The Plug-In Drug", Winn talks about television and its effect in the family life. She expresses how television has change the family atmosphere and child behaviors. The television dominates the household and continues to be a necessity in ever day life.
Quote: "The childrens evening is regimented with an almost military precision. They watch their favorite programs, and when there is 'nothing much on I really like', they watch whatever else is on- because watching is the important thing."
Response: Many children come home from school and glue themselves to the television. Flipping through the channels and watch whatever is on. The hours spent in front of the television in many house holds has increase tremendously over the years.
Many families have multiple television sets within the household allowing the father to be upstairs watching sports, the kids in the living room watching cartoons, and the mother in the kitchen watching the food network. The idea that a screen has completely taken over our life is crazy. Many families do not even have family games nights or go outside.
With television, viewers are exposed to tons of commercials brainwashing them to buy a product. "Because we're worth it" is L'Oréals way of saying you need this product to make you more beautiful. The news takes part in this luring tactic. "Is your baby at risk?! News at 11!" The television has a way of sucking us in to a point where we cannot spend one day without turning on our favorite program and sitting on the couch.
Although the T.V. has many negatives, it also has some positives. For example, when the show LOST was still on television, my family used to always sit down together and watch our favorite show on Wednesday nights. Since my whole family liked that show, we all in a way bonded over it and many other shows we have common interest in. With LOST, we always got so excited by the story line and we would have discussions and debates on what will happen next or what the hell an episode meant. After a long day of work, sitting by the television is a way for my parents to relax and forget about all the hectic things going on around them.
Television has definitely become a big part of everyone's life. One cannot walk into a house hold and not see a television in the living room. It has consumed the lives of children and adults and living with out it would seem impossible.
Summary: In Marie Winn's piece "Television: The Plug-In Drug", Winn talks about television and its effect in the family life. She expresses how television has change the family atmosphere and child behaviors. The television dominates the household and continues to be a necessity in ever day life.
Quote: "The childrens evening is regimented with an almost military precision. They watch their favorite programs, and when there is 'nothing much on I really like', they watch whatever else is on- because watching is the important thing."
Response: Many children come home from school and glue themselves to the television. Flipping through the channels and watch whatever is on. The hours spent in front of the television in many house holds has increase tremendously over the years.
Many families have multiple television sets within the household allowing the father to be upstairs watching sports, the kids in the living room watching cartoons, and the mother in the kitchen watching the food network. The idea that a screen has completely taken over our life is crazy. Many families do not even have family games nights or go outside.
With television, viewers are exposed to tons of commercials brainwashing them to buy a product. "Because we're worth it" is L'Oréals way of saying you need this product to make you more beautiful. The news takes part in this luring tactic. "Is your baby at risk?! News at 11!" The television has a way of sucking us in to a point where we cannot spend one day without turning on our favorite program and sitting on the couch.
Although the T.V. has many negatives, it also has some positives. For example, when the show LOST was still on television, my family used to always sit down together and watch our favorite show on Wednesday nights. Since my whole family liked that show, we all in a way bonded over it and many other shows we have common interest in. With LOST, we always got so excited by the story line and we would have discussions and debates on what will happen next or what the hell an episode meant. After a long day of work, sitting by the television is a way for my parents to relax and forget about all the hectic things going on around them.
Television has definitely become a big part of everyone's life. One cannot walk into a house hold and not see a television in the living room. It has consumed the lives of children and adults and living with out it would seem impossible.
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