Posted on 05/27/2016 9:15:06 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
If confidence monitors [i.e., monitors placed in the speaker’s field of view but out of sight of the audience] are dangerous, a teleprompter is even more so. On the face of it, it’s a brilliant invention. It places the words on a glass screen invisible to the audience bu right in the speaker’s line of sight. So a speaker can read a speech while also maintaining constant eye contact with the audience.
But its ingenuity is also its Achilles’ heel. If you use one of these you’re in danger of communicating to the audience, I’m pretending to look at you, but actually I’m reading. And the mixed signals from that can be damaging.
You might object - this can’t be right. President Obama, one of the finest speakers of our era, regularly uses a teleprompter. Indeed. And it has a divisive effect on audiences. Those disposed to trust and like him ignore it and embrace the talk in full as his authentic way of speaking to them. But his political opponents have gleefully used the teleprompter against him, mocking him for not being able to speak openly to live audiences. As a result, media strategist Fred Davis believes the teleprompter has been ruined for all politicians. He told the Washington Post, “It’s a negative because it’s a sign of inauthenticity. It’s a sign that you can’t speak on your own two feet. It’s a sign that you have handlers behind you telling you what to say."
Ping.
” one of the finest speakers of our era,”
Don’t make me PUKE! Says WHO?
Ah, pause, (something stupid) ah, pause, (something stupid), Ah, pause, (something stupid), ah, pause, (something stupid), and may Allah... I mean... God Bless the United States of America.
“...President Obama, one of the finest speakers of our era...”
Really? What drugs are these people on?
Odongo would last 30 seconds in a Toastmasters meeting speech. He’d be thrown out on his azz. Heck, he couldn’t even do the “Icebreaker” speech without an “Ah”.
He’s no speaker, he’s an imposter.
0bama has been named a lot of things that he patently is not: a great speaker, an intellectual, a Christian, an American...
TED needs to change its name. Because Cruz.
BBBWWWWAAAAAAAAAHAhahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Dude writes that, and then expects to be taken seriously?????
Colossal damfool, he is.
“...President Obama, one of the finest speakers of our era...”
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Obama is NOT a speaker...He is a “reader”...
Have you ever heard him speak “off the cuff”?????
Count the number of “uhhs”, “ahhs”, “mmms” and pauses when he talks withOUT the prompter....
Finest speaker eh? According to whom? The people that think the orange and purple poka dot potato sacks that chewbaca wears are the pinnacle of high fashion?
A Nobel Prize qualifier...
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