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4 unusual facts about The Plug-In Drug


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Marie Winn eventually became a journalist whose books include The Plug-In Drug, a scathing critique on television's influence over children.

Marie Winn

Winn is the author of the influential The Plug-In Drug (1977), an often scathing critique of television's addictive influence on the young, Winn wrote, "The television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state."

The Plug-In Drug

Winn was even more hostile to the Internet and the World Wide Web than she had been to television itself twenty-five years before.

The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, And The Family is a book of social criticism written by Marie Winn and published in 1977 by Viking Penguin with the ISBN 0140076980.


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Other notable shows in the early days included Editors, Four Tet, Explosions in the Sky and two successive sell-out Saturday night appearances by emerging Sheffield act Arctic Monkeys.


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