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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.

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 asistance of a teleprompter, making frequent bloopers and saying embarassing things.  <ref>http://www.teleprompterobama.com/</ref>   

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>   

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