APPEARANCES AND REALITY
The trouble is that our public men are really artificial. They’re created by the most devastating tool that technology has invented. . . the teleprompter: They don’t speak spontaneously. . . They read this thing that’s going around there in front of them, words that have been created for them by PR men. It allows an inadequate, minor individual to appear to be a statesman. Barbara Tuchman, quoted by Bill Moyers, World of Ideas
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