The Compleat Glass Teat

The Glass Teat: Essays The classic collection of criticism about television and American culture from the late multi-award-winning legend.  From 1968 through 1972, Harlan Ellison penned a series of weekly columns, sharing his uncompromising thoughts about contemporary television programming for the Los Angeles Free Press, a.k.a. “The Freep”, a countercultural, underground newspaper. Sitcoms and variety shows, westerns and cop dramas, newscasts and commercials, Ellison left no pixelated stone unturned, expounding on the insipidness, hypocrisy, and malaise found in the glowing images projected into the faces of American audiences.  The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television collects 52 of Ellison’s columns - including his 2011 introduction “Welcome to the Gulag”, his unapologetic commentary about how cellphones and the internet have extended television’s reach, eroding intelligence and freedom and creating a legion of bloodshot-eyed zombies unable to communi