Friday, August 3, 2018

Being A Leader 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.

A president is generally speaking the highest elected office in the land. They are the ostensible leader of a country. The position itself is seen as the most powerful position that can be held in a democracy.

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.

There is a reason that presidents make speeches. Because it is expected of them. They are expected to take the podium and then speak at length to the public. Now, the purpose is to convey the sort of information they want to be conveyed. It is also how they make announcements that are going to have an effect on national policy and the country in general.

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.

The main risk that comes with one is that it can be compromised. This of course means that the content of a speech can be changed. If it gets changed, then the person reading it can say something that is not supposed to say, which can be an embarrassment at best and a declaration of war at worst.

Now, it should be easy enough to use. Just program the speech in, turn it on, and let it roll. The fact that it has been in use for decades means that it must have proven its usefulness time and time again.

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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