In Marie Winn's "Television: The Plug-In Drug" she argues how the television has had a negative impact on the American family life. Indeed this is correct as the telvision has had many negative impacts on how a family interacts. Not only that, the television has impacted the way the youth socializes through out America. Thus, the television has had a negative impact on Americans all around.

The fact that the television became a medium in family homes has had many impacts on a family. Although the television brought families together into one room to be entertained by what was on t.v it seperated them in different ways. One example given in Winn's essay is, "by it domination of the time families spend together, it destroys