TV is generally excluded from lists of the most desirable leisure activities because those watching are only exposed to one-way transmission of information; they become passive recipients, taking--rather than freely choosing--whatever is dished out. In so doing, they miss out on the core element in any genuine recreation: that the doer has autonomously chosen it for herself.
葉智魁表示，「看電視」所以被排除於正向休閒名單之外，因為看電視時，觀眾面對的是單向放送的洗腦式訊息，容易淪為消極被動的接受者，喪失「選擇的自由」，也就失落了休閒中最核心的元素──「自由」和「自我抉擇」。