Reading The Right Things With A Presidential Teleprompter

By Robert Ross


Human beings are social animals. They do not live alone. The fact that they are extremely social and collaborative is exactly how humanity managed to society. If not for that ability to work with each other, the bigger stronger predators would have hunted humankind into extinction well before they ever had the idea to settle down and stop wandering around the earth. But because they lived as a community, those communities have to be leaders. Now, those leaders have to do things like make speeches and whatnot, so they are going to make use of many a presidential teleprompter.

Now, a president is the person who is ostensibly in charge of a country. They are typically seen as the leaders of their respective countries. Which makes them the face of that nation on a world stage.

A teleprompter is like a screen. Their placement is generally next to a camera. On that screen, words are supposed to go by. Politicians are not the only ones who use them, as newscasters will often read from them during their broadcasts.

It is expected of the president to make a speech. That is because they are generally the most visible member of the government. Which means that they are the mouthpiece of the nation, or at least the figurehead. If there is information that is going to seriously impact national policy, then the citizenry would be right to expect it to come from the mouth of the leader of that country.

The reason that a teleprompter is used is simple. The speeches that are given can rather crazy in length. Thousands upon thousands of words, hundreds upon hundreds of sentences. Which means that it is pretty much impossible to give one purely from memory, which is why it has to be read out.

There are certain risks that come with using one however. They are machines, which means that they can be compromised as machines are vulnerable to that. If they are compromised, then the words that roll by on their screens can be changed. So a prankster can hack in, rewrite the speech, and the president could get completely embarrassed on national television.

Using one should be easy enough. All that a person has to do is read one. The only thing that needs to be done with it is to program the speech in and then turn it on. Once that is done, all that it left is to hope for literacy on the part of the reader.

Now, it is important to have a speechwriter. This is because words will not put themselves together. There has to be a person who takes them together and then strings them into sentences, and then that person has to take those sentences and then hopefully form a coherent thought of some sort. Then a politician is supposed to read those sentences on live television. So it is important that the speechwriter be somewhat competent.

The thing about life is that it was supposed to be something that came with a lot of difficulty. It was supposed to be hard, quick, and painful. But humankind was so stubborn that it managed to get out of it.




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