Brendan Nyhan

Today Show interviews fake teleprompter

The Today Show story mocking Barack Obama’s teleprompter use really jumps the shark at the end:

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Nothing says action like a news correspondent reading the emails she is laboriously typing into the computer (“We … are … getting … some … feedback … on …. Twitter…”). The wacky gimmick is that she is writing to the author of the the fake Obama teleprompter blog, whose responses are then read back in a computer voice while showing a graphic of a teleprompter. I smell Pulitzer…