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In addition to these common scenarios, the teleprompter risks being revealed to the viewer by way of framing, such as showing the speaker through the teleprompter glass see Figure 7.
While the device itself can break, freeze, or slow down, the teleprompter fiascos that find their way onto the front page are almost always results of human error. Reading a speech on the Dominican Republic revolution as the paper rolled through the prompting device not visible on camera, President Johnson began to repeat a passage just beyond the halfway point of his talk.
Viewers who knew that the President was using a prompting device may have assumed that the mechanical device had broken down. But later an authoritative source said the mishap was not the fault of the device itself. Johnson had made a last-minute insert in his speech, but someone failed to make this insert in the device. It can be useful to unpack this early report on the misbehaving prompter.
Existing in the margins or off-screen is therefore a double-edged sword. President Obama framed through a teleprompter at the Savannah Technical College on creating jobs and the economy on 2 March The history of the teleprompter can teach us how technologies that promise to solve one problem often end up germinating new, unforeseen problems. Paper, glass, algorithm surprisingly, the solution was not to get rid of the machine, but rather to train politicians and television hosts to use it better.
If, as Kahn insisted, the failure should be attributed to a human error, the humans are the ones who require re-education. These low-stakes moments of failure can supposedly be prevented or eliminated by training politicians to use this memory aid more seamlessly. By subjecting politicians and public servants to the standards of the entertainment industry, the teleprompter blurred the lines between these two spheres.
Yet, even politicians trained in televised performance are not immune to teleprompter scandals. Putting his charisma to work, he apologized and started over, this time reading his speech off the printed hard copy placed in front of him. More recently, politicians who heavily rely on prompters have come under attack. As we can see, political leaders are forced to strike a balance between skillfully using prompting devices while hiding the fact that they do so.
To break a teleprompter Our historical research can serve to reassess the role of prompting devices in contemporary American politics. A close reading of two teleprompter fiascos involving President Trump, the first accidental, the second intentional, can complicate our understanding of both liveness and techno-failure. But the teleprompter did go out.
And it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it. More importantly, this attack on the machine echoes broader ideological and political ideas promoted by Trump, including first and foremost his insistence that automation and the ubiquity of machines are to blame for the loss of millions of jobs in the United States.
The discourse of authenticity and his refusal to use a prompter unless required have helped Trump present himself as a neo-Luddite who fully understands and deeply sympathizes with the frustration of American workers whose jobs have been taken by the tech revolution. However, applying the framework of performative liveness to an earlier incident provides a more complex narrative. On 15 October , Trump gave a speech at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, when his teleprompter supposedly broke down mid-sentence.
In response, Trump dismantled his teleprompter, violently pushing it aside while shattering the glass screen. It is impossible to disconnect the visible pleasure of hundreds of Trump supporters from the violent destruction of a cutting-edge machine, a one-sided glass screen that can barely be noticed.
Paper, glass, algorithm have come to associate ubiquitous screens and opaque technologies with negative feelings such as helplessness, dishonesty, and surveillance.
During his speech, Trump broke the fourth wall by touching the prompting device. This final reading returns us to the collapse of the sonic, tactile, and optical in the manifestation and reconfiguration of the teleprompter. In so doing, he was able to set a meaningful precedent: turning a teleprompter fiasco into a campaign highlight, a failure masquerading as success.
Conclusion The teleprompter, as we have seen, is a technology sustaining a set of tensions and paradoxes. First, there exists a tension between a device designed to empower the speaker by eliminating the need of memorization and a black box controlling the speaker like a puppet.
Second, there is a tension between the ability to deliver longer and possibly more demanding texts on live television and the fact that the prompter has played a crucial role in turning politics into a spectacle.
Lastly, the attempt to outlaw its use helped populist leaders like Trump tie together their political agenda with the refusal of using opaque technology. Within this discourse, it is no surprise that teleprompter failures have been recast as technical issues rather than human errors. Since the s, this device has given birth to new and complex anxieties that can be found in other technologies designed as black boxes.
Its changing materiality — from paper to glass and, more recently, to an algorithmically-controlled system of multiple screens — tells a story of both ubiquity and opacity. With every iteration of this mnemonic technology, the need to embed it in lecterns, stadiums, lecture halls and, during the COVID pandemic, domestic settings, has posed new challenges that gradually reshaped the televisual spectacle and our idea of public speaking.
The teleprompter promised and enabled tactile vision converging the eye and the hand. These mostly forgotten historical anecdotes should not be studied as an exception to the rule. Barton, Schlafly and Simjian envisioned a tool that could free actors, politicians, and educators from the need to memorize text. Thanks to this newfound synesthesia, the prompter has since been employed not just by actors and politicians, but also by filmmakers most famously Errol Morris , artists, and YouTube stars.
As we demonstrated, a performative lens can open up new avenues of investigation, bringing together contingency and control by expanding the category of the media event to include quotidian, yet meaningful, moments of human-machine negotiations. Early advertisements made by the TelePrompTer Corp marketed it as a pedagogical tool that could be used in classrooms and lecture halls.
The involvement of the TelePrompTer Corp in the military—industrial complex is beyond the scope of this article. These different patents, both filed in the s, were designed to set new standards of human voices in the entertainment industry by way of automation see Oppenheimer and Oppenheimer For a survey of speech recognition algorithms and how they are being used in automated prompters, see Wolber
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