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I will be writing a counterargument to two of Marie Winn's assertions in her
essay titled, "Television and Reading." The first assertion that Winn points out is that,
"acquired through years and years of television viewing, has influenced adversely
viewers' ablity to concetrate, to read, to write clearly-in short, to demonstrate any of the
verbal skills a literate society requires" (49). I don't think this is true at all. There are a
lot of good writers out there that grew up watching tv. Most preschoolers and toddlers
now and days, whose parents can't afford school, learn how to have a conversation from
tv programs and the basic essential they will need to know by the time they get old
enough to attend school, so this gives them the verbal skills in order to talk right and to
know how to pronouce certain words. Some kids can't sit still long enough to have a
book read to them so the programs on tv introduce them to characters or people they
wouldn't meet other wise......

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