Which You Give Up : TV or The Internet

So a bit more background on my temporary kind-of radio silence: I'm working from home, where, thanks to a vaguely explained snafu on the part of our good friends at Verizon, I have been without DSL since yesterday morning. So I've moved "home," for the moment, to a cafe with wi-fi. (Which, this being Park Slope, Brooklyn, is currently rocking out to the children's-folk-rock stylings of
Dan Zanes.) Mmmmm. Delicious, delicious bandwidth.
Well, when life hands you DSLemons, you make DSLemonade. Without the distraction of electro-contact, I flew through a draft of an early review of Mad Men's season premiere. And I decided to use the experience as a teaching moment / discussion post.
The Tuned In Jrs. have, of course, been hit hard by the outage, which apparently came amid an extremely important event at
Club Penguin. Forced to live, for an entire day or more, like medieval peasants—with only cable TV, Tivo and their parents' 3G iPhones—I asked what it taught them about their priorities: if forced, would they rather give up TV or the Internet?
Tuned In Jr., with a quickness that should chill any TV executive with plans for the future, answered that he'd give up TV. (He then backpedaled, saying that it would depend. Sorry: Daddy is a journalist, so Daddy
demands a simple narrative.) Tuned In Jr. Jr., who's younger and still likes more passive entertainment, reacted as if I'd asked him to choose between Mommy and Daddy. (At least I'm hoping that decision would be equally hard.