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A '''teleprompter''' is an [[electronic]] imaging system that enables speakers and newscasters to look into the [[television]] camera (or at a live audience) and read the text of prepared remarks without the viewers realizing it. It operates like a one-way mirror, with the reflection of text scrolling on the screen for the speaker and the viewers seeing through the text like a [[transparent]] mirror. | A '''teleprompter''' is an [[electronic]] imaging system that enables speakers and newscasters to look into the [[television]] camera (or at a live audience) and read the text of prepared remarks without the viewers realizing it. It operates like a one-way mirror, with the reflection of text scrolling on the screen for the speaker and the viewers seeing through the text like a [[transparent]] mirror. | ||
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| + | [[File:Obama-6th-grade-teleprompter.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Obama speaks to sixth grade students utilizing teleprompters. Imagine, what if teachers used this same method of 'instructing'?]] | ||
| + | ==Presidential Popularity== | ||
It was first popularized by former President [[Herbert Hoover]] at a [[Republican]] national convention, when he gave the secret away by complaining to a national audience that the teleprompter needed to restart the scrolling of the text after he paused to improvise. | It was first popularized by former President [[Herbert Hoover]] at a [[Republican]] national convention, when he gave the secret away by complaining to a national audience that the teleprompter needed to restart the scrolling of the text after he paused to improvise. | ||
| − | President [[Barack Obama]] has had difficulty speaking without the | + | President [[Barack Obama]] has had difficulty speaking without the assistance of a teleprompter, making frequent bloopers and saying embarrassing things. <ref>http://www.teleprompterobama.com/</ref> |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 19:34, September 2, 2010
A teleprompter is an electronic imaging system that enables speakers and newscasters to look into the television camera (or at a live audience) and read the text of prepared remarks without the viewers realizing it. It operates like a one-way mirror, with the reflection of text scrolling on the screen for the speaker and the viewers seeing through the text like a transparent mirror.
Presidential Popularity
It was first popularized by former President Herbert Hoover at a Republican national convention, when he gave the secret away by complaining to a national audience that the teleprompter needed to restart the scrolling of the text after he paused to improvise.
President Barack Obama has had difficulty speaking without the assistance of a teleprompter, making frequent bloopers and saying embarrassing things. [1]
