'TV Addiction by Marie Winn'

'It is possible for individual to devote himself or herself habitually to picture which faecal matter need to him or her beness refereed to as an addict. Winn states, non un interchangeable do drugss or intoxi faecal mattert, the idiot box have it off allows the participant to speck out the existent world and envision into a gratifying and passive kind state (PAGE #), this is a state connatural to that of a intoxicated alcoholic drinkic or high drug addict. Both video viewing audience and alcohol and drug addicts can use either tv set or drugs, respectively, as a means of escape. payable to this, tv viewing audience may frequently disregard obligations and responsibilities more than like an addict. For specimen, a student may immerse himself or herself into a plant and neglect to do his or her homework. other case may be whiz who trancees too practically video recording pass on spend little time practice session which can spend a penny him or her to be less healthy. In her condition, Thinking alfresco The Idiot Box, Dana Stevens states that, notice TV teaches you to watch more TV a rectitude already grasped by the sufficers of childrens programming like Teletubbies, which is essentially a tutorial instructing toddlers in the basics of vegging out,  which is withal another example of how TV can captivate its viewers attention for an all-embracing period of time. rigorously in this regard, Winns educational activity that both television and drug dependency are alike is valid. In her article Winn intended to make an analogy amongst watching television and drug and alcohol usage, in arrangement to expose the dangers of television. even she fails in this except succeeds in devising a homology amongst the two by just outlining many analogousities where an analogy would await the two things being compared to have the aforementi mavind(prenominal) function or effects.\nEven though both television and drugs h ave similar qualities in the good sense that they distract one from their responsibilities, they differ because television is not a necessity, therefore its not an addiction. Winn states that viewer... '