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 a device. Its main body is a screen. Now, on that screen, there will be a number of words that roll by. The person who is reading those words is supposed to do so out loud, because if a teleprompter is in use, then a speech is being given. A newscaster will also use on during their broadcast.

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.

Teleprompters are needed because of one simple reason. The speeches that are written for the speaker are long. They can go on forever and forever, especially if it is a state of the nation address. Those things have to cover all sorts of topics and will take hours before the end can even be begun to be approached.

But there are some risks that come with using one. They are machines. As machines, they are vulnerable to being compromised. Now, if it gets compromised, then the reader can say something that would better left go unsaid, because then there would be a huge instance of embarrassment on the world stage. Or, it could be that the president says something provocative that results in war. Given the level of political power involved, saying the wrong thing could be catastrophic.

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.

Being alive can come with some surprises. Then there are things that can predict those surprises or even control them. So they should be sought out.




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