Marie Winn Defending Television
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Nick Brian
Nkosi Ife Bandele
Writing 101
March 12, 2014
Defending TV In her essay “Television addiction,” Marie Winn considers TV to be very addictive. She compares watching TV to taking drugs. She also never mentions any of its benefits. Television is one of the most important inventions of our time, and it certainly had benefited mankind. Watching TV causes no chemical substance addiction. Still, Winn thinks that, the level of addiction from excessive television viewing is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction. She states, “In a way, the lives of heavy viewers are as unbalanced by their television “habit” as drug addicts ' or alcoholics ' lives”(609). Unlike drugs, it is not something a person inhales threw his nose or injects into his veins. There is no chemical substance use when watching television. If someone is considered to be a “TV addict,” he is only doing it by habit. When a person is trying to get off drugs, or alcohol, he must go threw a rehabilitation program. On the other hand, the “TV addict” will only have to turn off the television. …show more content…
In fact, she thinks it 's an unproductive experience. She wrote, about television viewers, “They are aware that it is an unproductive experience, that by any human measure any other endeavor is more worthwhile”(609). To mention one of the benefits of television; through TV people explore places, animals, or things that they could never see otherwise. Most people are not able to visit the rain forest or see a lion in the wild, but, many have seen these things on TV, and that is just one of the benefits of watching television. In an article for the New York Times, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” by Steven Johnson. He argues that many of the shows that our population deems bad TV, are relatively healthy for our brains to watch. He states, “You have
Nick Brian
Nkosi Ife Bandele
Writing 101
March 12, 2014
Defending TV In her essay “Television addiction,” Marie Winn considers TV to be very addictive. She compares watching TV to taking drugs. She also never mentions any of its benefits. Television is one of the most important inventions of our time, and it certainly had benefited mankind. Watching TV causes no chemical substance addiction. Still, Winn thinks that, the level of addiction from excessive television viewing is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction. She states, “In a way, the lives of heavy viewers are as unbalanced by their television “habit” as drug addicts ' or alcoholics ' lives”(609). Unlike drugs, it is not something a person inhales threw his nose or injects into his veins. There is no chemical substance use when watching television. If someone is considered to be a “TV addict,” he is only doing it by habit. When a person is trying to get off drugs, or alcohol, he must go threw a rehabilitation program. On the other hand, the “TV addict” will only have to turn off the television. …show more content…
In fact, she thinks it 's an unproductive experience. She wrote, about television viewers, “They are aware that it is an unproductive experience, that by any human measure any other endeavor is more worthwhile”(609). To mention one of the benefits of television; through TV people explore places, animals, or things that they could never see otherwise. Most people are not able to visit the rain forest or see a lion in the wild, but, many have seen these things on TV, and that is just one of the benefits of watching television. In an article for the New York Times, “Watching TV Makes You Smarter,” by Steven Johnson. He argues that many of the shows that our population deems bad TV, are relatively healthy for our brains to watch. He states, “You have