'TV Addiction by Marie Winn'

'It is possible for person to devote himself or herself habitually to goggle box set which hobo belong to him or her cosmos refereed to as an addict. Winn states, non unthe likes of medicines or intoxi fecal mattert, the goggle box become allows the participant to flaw out the realistic world and innovate into a sweet and passive genial state (PAGE #), this is a state homogeneous to that of a drunk alcoholic beverageic or high drug addict. Both video viewing audience and alcohol and drug addicts can use any tv set or drugs, respectively, as a means of escape. referable to this, television viewing audience may a great deal disregard obligations and responsibilities around(prenominal) like an addict. For pillow slip, a student may immerse himself or herself into a translate and neglect to do his or her homework. other case may be sensationness who fites too some(prenominal) television will spend less(prenominal) time practice which can bear him or her to be less healthy. In her word, Thinking outback(a) The Idiot Box, Dana Stevens states that, ceremony TV teaches you to watch more TV a honor already grasped by the arrivers of childrens programming like Teletubbies, which is essentially a tutorial instructing toddlers in the basics of vegging out,  which is to date another example of how TV can captivate its viewers attention for an encompassing period of time. rigorously in this regard, Winns direction that both television and drug dependence are connatural is valid. In her article Winn intended to make an analogy amongst watching television and drug and alcohol usage, in post to expose the dangers of television. besides she fails in this save succeeds in qualification a homology amid the two by just outlining some sameities where an analogy would collect the two things beingness compared to have the aforementioned(prenominal) function or effects.\nEven though both television and drugs have similar quali ties in the aesthesis that they distract one from their responsibilities, they differ because television is not a necessity, therefore its not an addiction. Winn states that viewer... '