So in a particularly busy week at home, a full-time waitress could work five hours fewer than usual and then make up the time the following week. We should give hourly workers the same opportunities that salaried professionals have to arrange their schedules around family needs. Edited excerpts of his remarks follow. Television is consumed in vast quantities. Consumer use of the Internet and online services, while growing, remains very small compared with the use of television.
Television is cheap, undemanding, convenient.
It is suited to viewing in disconnected and fretful bouts and with frequent interruptions. It may be habit-forming. An important factor in consumer demand for television is a desire for passive entertainment. Consumer surveys show decreased satisfaction with television over the years in spite of great increases in the number of choices and greatly increased ease of use. More choices and remote controls require an often unwelcome investment by the viewer in making and executing decisions.