{{Short description|Book of television reviews and essays written by Harlan Ellison}} {{Infobox book | image = TheGlassTeat.jpg | caption = First edition | author = [[Harlan Ellison]] | language = English | country = [[United States]] | pub_date = 1970 | cover_artist = [[Leo and Diane Dillon]] }} {{italic title}}
'''''The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on Television''''' is a 1970 compilation of television reviews and essays written by [[Harlan Ellison]] as a regular weekly column for the ''[[Los Angeles Free Press]]'' from late 1968 to early 1970, discussing the effects of television upon society.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ellison |first1=Harlan |title=The Glass Teat |date=1983|orig-date=1970|publisher=Ace Books |isbn=9780441289882 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bodroghkozy|first=Aniko|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hcrVYfds_oC&dq=The+Glass+Teat+Ellison+los+angeles+free+press&pg=PA290|title=Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0-8223-8008-5|location=Durham, NC and London|pages=290|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Spigel|first1=Lynn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSJGAQAAQBAJ&dq=The+Glass+Teat+Ellison+los+angeles+free+press&pg=PT224|title=The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict|last2=Curtin|first2=Michael|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-1-135-20540-9|location=New York and London|pages=218|language=en|orig-date=1997}}</ref>
==Summary== The title implies that TV viewers are analogous with unweaned children. Discussion of television is frequently interspersed in the essays with lengthy asides about Ellison's personal life, experiences and opinions in general.
==Reception and legacy== Modern critics have noted that his criticisms remain relevant.<ref>Stephen King, "Danse Macabre": Chapter VII, Page 132</ref> The book's topics were dictated by the trends and fashions of the day.
Ellison later collected a second volume of criticism entitled ''The Other Glass Teat'', which was published in 1975.<ref>[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?729157 Title: The Other Glass Teat] Retrieved 25 December 2022.</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.michaelallsup.com/glass_teat.htm The Other Glass Teat]
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