If you've seen or read any part of the news this week, major buzz is circulating about Melania Trump and her supposed plagiarism of Michelle Obama's speech, given at the Democratic National Convention years earlier.

The media appears divided on who to blame: Melania Trump and the rest of Trump campaign team, or the speech writer behind those lines?

Believe it or not, while speech writers and "ghost" writers have been used by government officials for many years now, this did not used to be an accepted form of communication.

Today, politicians are expected to rely on their teams to groom them into great communicators, from preparing them for questions at press conferences, scheduling them to "volunteer" at a nonprofit in the community, or writing their speeches and helping them prepare their delivery.

Before Franklin Delano Roosevelt modernized the way Presidents communicate with the rest of the country, having a speechwriter at all would have been considered a scandal. Early presidents used their passion and voice as a means of raw authenticity rather than focusing on making a performance, and while I bet some were uncomfortable speaking publically, the fervor behind their own words must have been inspiring.

Today politicians have correspondence committees and small villages of people controlling the way they come across, and while I understand some aspects of it I can't help but think our country's leaders have lost some authenticity in the process. Presidents used to speak in public squares from the sincerity of their hearts, and while the world is very different now, today they speak in incremented time slots with words that aren't even theirs.

Melania Trump may have technically plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech, but our current First Lady has been guilty of the same thing in past speeches. Today it seems that most politicians are passed off as great communicators, when instead they are simply great TelePrompTer readers.

I find irony in this situation because if I had a peer write my speech for a communications class, I would be labeled as a cheater, risking my academic integrity and my ability to continue on at my university. However, ghost writers and speechwriters are accepted and rarely mentioned in the political realm, and numerous well-known speeches are credited solely to government officials without recognition to the writer.

I understand that writing is difficult because I am a writer, but I firmly believe that a person in political power, skilled writer or otherwise, should use their own voice and have more control over their own speeches.

While I can hope for a return to our roots of sharing emotionally charged, spontaneous speeches, I can also hope that this fiasco brings to light the reality of political speeches: that in the end, it's all slightly plagiarized.

I'm all for calling a vote for authentic orators, and until then I'll add a disclaimer that this article was written entirely by myself.