Talk:The Glass Teat

Opening Paragraph
I haven't read this collection of essays myself, but the opening paragraph definitely strikes me as being POV. I find it necessary to tag this article's neutrality. Kearby 23:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Neutrality and Citations
This article has been tagged since February for POV. The article is fraught with weasel words like "Allegedly" and uncited claims as to the critical regard for this book. Since it has been tagged for over half a year, I'm going to remove everything except for the first and last sentence and add a little factual information about the actual contents of the book after doing a bit of research. Sbacle 14:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)


 * by removing:
 * "the book was highly regarded by television insiders and schools with media studies programs."
 * If someone can find a reliable source, please do so. - RoyBoy 22:22, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

I have read both The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat
I read both of these books while in College about thirty years ago. How does someone write a neutral POV Wikipedia article on a book that is a collection of opinion pieces? No matter what is written it seems that someone could object because the subject material not neutral.

I remember that these critiques of television revealed to me just how bad and contrived the programming really was and how addictive it was in that I could not stop watching television until going cold turkey without one to watch. Many of the reviews are in the context of the politics of the Nixon era. The Smothers Brothers Comedy show and its cancellation. The Tim Conway Show and it's fate. In one of the columns Ellison claimed to have made the Nixon Enemies list for suggesting that Spiro Agnew used Readers Digest as a DIY magazine. (Ellison's name does not appear on the "Master List" here at Wikipedia.) Ellison recounts how a program called "The Young Lawyers" was revamped to move minority characters into supporting roles  to make room for a new character cast as a WASP and how writing team sarcastically named this character Christian White until someone noticed. Ellison's disparaging comments about Hollywood gossip shows such as Rhona Barret address the irrelevance of such programming. This commentary is just as relevant today and would be apparent to anyone who has watched a recent episode of "Entertainment tonight".

The columns were highly regarded enough for a publisher to roll them into paperbacks which were reprinted several times in the 1970s and again in 1983. Amazon enumerates twenty-eight books that cite The Glass Teat. Looking over the list I see that some of these are cites from more scholarly publications about that era of television and media. Qwy47 (talk) 00:58, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Publication date?
This article manages to avoid mentioning when the book was actually published. 70.73.90.119 (talk) 15:22, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

The Boob Tube?
Was this book ever released under another title? Seem to recall seeing the book with the title "The Boob Tube" in the late 1970s, but then that might memory translating. pbannister (talk) 02:19, 7 December 2020 (UTC)