Back when my wife and I were in Champaign-Urbana for graduate school, I read a book that changed the lives of our future children. This was 1981 and the television age was, for most people, about to leap into the cable-television age and VCRs were about to enter the picture. The book was “The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Family” by Marie Winn, a New York City journalist and social critic. The key, for me, was that Winn didn’t focus on the content of television.
