Truth UnPrompTed

TelePrompTers, like many of the folks who rely on them, are deceptively simple.

Two thin panes of grey glass are clipped into place in front of the promptee, and from certain angles it’s hard to tell that anything’s there at all. Underneath the lectern, somewhere, are the guts of the machine, but the whole thing is pretty easy to figure out. The most complicated thing about a TelePrompTer is the name, which is trademarked and therefore idiotic.