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...
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