美国把世界带入了电视时代，而因此造成的影响可以从美国与哈兰·艾莉森所谓“玻璃奶嘴”的著名论断之间的漫长爱情故事中得到最直接体现。
The United States led the world into the television age, and the implications can be seen most directly in America’s long love affair with what Harlan Ellison memorably called “the glass teat.”