Things haven't changed much with teleprompters

Invented to be used by soap stars, they are still used primarily by speakers trying to portray a false emotion.

clipped from www.csmonitor.com Teleprompters were invented to help actors struggling to memorize soap opera lines. An operator controls the scrolling of text. Display screens can be placed over a camera, or on clear glass, or pretty much anywhere that gets speakers’ eyes up, so it doesn’t look as if they’re reading from a piece of paper.