Speeches are very different than published work. Even though the author of each may be the same (in some cases it’s not if there is a speech writer), published work is more polished than a speech. A speech has structure, but there is room for the speaker to say what they want to. A book has structure and there is no way of changing it.
In this video, (it is a very good video by the way), the canditate is talking about how America isn’t the greatest country in the world. People are video taping it. What someone video tapes someone saying something, it is obvious it is that person who said it. Was the speech a public speech? Because if it was, it should be allowed to get distributed to the public because anyone could have gone.
If you need tickets to a speech, then there should be more regulations; especially if you have to buy tickets. That means it is a private speech and there is a limit on the amount of people who could see it. And this is the case for a reason. If the speaker wanted everyone to have access to the speech, they would make it public.
I probably could have video taped Tony Blair’s speech, I didn’t try. I can try for the Goodall speech, but I don’t want to be kicked out.
I think you bring up an interesting point in regard to buying tickets to see a speech. I think that buying tickets definitely implies that it is a private event.
This reminds me of the recording that was made of then presidential candidate Mitt Romney during the election season. During a private dinner, he made a controversial comment, “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what … who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. … These are people who pay no income tax. … and so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
Was it fair for this to be recorded? Does the American public have the right to hear this kind of rhetoric?
That does create an interesting divide between public and private. It seems like money ends up becoming the determining factor in a lot of the cases.