POLL- Why do WH Reporters Need to Read a NotePad to Ask a ONE 3 Sentence Question?

[FrenchieCat]

Poll question: POLL- Why do WH Reporters Need to Read a NotePad to Ask a ONE 3 Sentence Question?

BECAUSE

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The teleprompter can also be used in an interview situation where instead of text on the prompter you feed video from another camera so that the person looking at the prompter sees another person.

This helps people focus on the camera where you want them. This is frequently used in "newsroom" situations where the journalist is interviewing a reporter or spokesperson. Many of the networks use 2 prompters per camera - one with the text and another with a video feed of the person they are talking to. One prompter is in front of the lens and the other is hanging just below the lens.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Only 1 question in all those pages, written over and over and over and over....

They're not exactly the brightest armadillos in the desert you know!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

3. But they have goddamn nerves!

if nothing else!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. True! And they are far far less intelligent than Obama, which pisses them off and

confounds the heck out of them. Not one of them can get in a question that stumps the man.

[FrenchieCat]

8. And he looks at them with his sweet "Bring 'em on!" look!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

9. Yes! LOL! Good for him!! nt

[FrenchieCat]

2. I thought this was a good poll!

and I only got one vote! :shrug:

[Jennicut]

4. Awesome post. Poll is cool. Everyone needs to come here.

This is so true, the things in their ears tell them what to say! Empty suits.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Do the rec thing!

I want little Chuckie "T" to see this one! Him and his teleprompter!! :rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

7. Did it.

The rec thing. :P

[FrenchieCat]

10. Thanks!

Isn't Chuck "T" UP Todd here these days?

[4lbs]

11. How ironic that the people in the studios yapping about President Obama using a teleprompter

use one themselves.

[bigwillq]

12. You really hate the media

don't you, Frenchie?

I've seen quite a few threads by you bashing the media. Of course, some of it is justified. But I think some here spend too much time complaining about the media. The media is what it is. And I think more times than not they do a decent job.

24-hour news channels, and modern technology like the internet, and greedy corporations, have certainly resulted in "shock value" journalism nowadays. There is indeed a lot of biased analysis (on both sides) nowadays. But I really do feel that when news stations and newspapers just report the facts of a story that they really do a decent job. All this analysis, and special guests, etc, etc, on these news programs have made news much more confrontational, slanted and biased.

[FrenchieCat]

13. I hate the National Corporate Media.

[Clio the Leo]

14. lol, they all seemed SO nervous last night....

... esp. the one guy whom the President had to get to repeat the question because he was speaking so fast and mumbling.

Of course *I* would probably just stand there with my mouth hanging open going "duh......." so I really cant blame them.