The Glass Teat : Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television

In the late 1960's Harlan Ellison launched a weekly column for the Los Angeles Free Press where he uncompromisingly discussed the effects of television on modern society. He assaulted everything from television sitcoms to corrupt politicians, talk-shows to military massacres. Today, more than four decades later, almost all of his criticism still holds true. E-Reads and Ellison's company, Edgeworks Abbey, are proud to make this first collection of 52 outspoken columns widely available for the first time in some 40 years. Don't miss the second volume: THE OTHER GLASS TEAT. America: change it...or lose it! That is the powerful message of this no-holds-barred book of TV criticism, chosen from a year's worth of weekly assaults on racism, pollution, halfwitted situation comedies, corrupt politicians, asinine talk-shows, monstrous bad taste, and the fat-cat blindness of the Establishment ending in suicidal civil disorder. These 52 memorable and uncompromising hard-looks at our society and the world pull together, for the first time, the tangled lines of McLuhanesque communication that shape our daily lives... All as seen by Harlan Ellison, firebrand young TV columnist of the Los Angeles Free Press. The founders of modern literary fancy deserve their own place in the light. The Borealis Legends line is a tribute to the creators of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres as we know them today.