"No," says John. "A man would just stay put for the excellent food and non-stop television".
As in the campaign against corruption during the past few years, the protesters' fury was fanned by non-stop television and press coverage.
The recent hype around weddings, with non-stop television programmes such as Say Yes To the Dress, has seen an increase in bridal home traders.
The launch last week of France 24, a non-stop television news channel designed to report the news "through French eyes", was but the latest attempt to make France's voice heard.Even this argument is being challenged.
As someone said in one of the seemingly non-stop television discussion programmes of the past two weeks, "the days when gradualism was acceptable are over" or, to put it another way, the old attitudes of jugaad (quick fix) and chalta hai (don't worry, it will work ok) can no longer be relied on by the government to avoid social protest and unrest.
One of his main rivals, Amr Moussa, a former Egyptian minister, announced that he was not suspending his campaign but that he was stopping television advertising temporarily and had "canceled many events".
While watching sharks stalk their prey to eerie soundtracks may make for heart- stopping television, the fact is that sharks are responsible for the death of only two to three people each year.
When the Writers Guild of America strike stopped television production last fall and winter, Hollywood writers and producers rushed to create new scripted series for the Web, often called webisodes for lack of a more artful term.
Apart from digital broadcasts being far less vulnerable to interference, there's now plenty of frequency-hopping technology around for detecting digital broadcasts and avoiding them.That hasn't stopped television broadcasters from claiming interference will remain a problem if unlicensed devices are allowed to operate in the same part of the spectrum.
