This is worrisome in so many ways:

"I was watching the end of today's (1/21/07) Iron Chef and noticed the screen quickly blink red. A few seconds later I start thinking, "Was that the McDonalds logo...?" Thanks to the magic of my Dish Network DVR, I rewind, and put it in to slow motion.

"Sure enough, Food Network is allowing McDonalds to run subliminal advertisements in the middle of their programming!"

(Photo of captured still showing McDonald's logo with caption, 'I'm Lovin' it".)

http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/subliminal_advertising/

or so I thought

I remember the hew and outcry when this was first tried and quickly shut down "back in the day" :)

Actually the whole thing was pretty much bullshit but anyway

http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/popcorn.asp

According to snopes, the FCC banned it from TV and radio in 1974.

The US government has no control over movie theaters, thank god. At least not in terms of general content in non-obscene films.

also, not proven to be effective.

And this, according to Food Network was just a glitch.

Non-effective subliminal was long ago discarded as a concept. Today we have product placement to serve the purpose.

But of course, I am sure, more than a few will not believe me.

thanks

but I think our willingness to actually think these corrupt fucking companies wouldn't do it is naive.

I'm one those people that can't be hypnotized. I tried it to quit smoking. I can induce myself into a trance state. But when I do. No external stimulus gets through. The world outside of me simply does not exist.

As far as we know it's not effective, but advertisers can be very clever people. It might be used in combination with other techniques and strategies. And after that, even if only 1 out of 1000 people are persuaded by it, that can have a huge impact.

half a split second shot of an icy cold glass of Coke.

:eyes:

just arrogant enough to try and pull this bullshit.

I thought this thing was impossible until I saw a special on nuclear power from MSNBC, of course MSNBC is fucking owned by GE, which "pioneered" boiling water nuclear reactors!

Actually, now that I think of it, anyone who watches MSNBC is fucking owned by GE as well.

It's a glitch. Someone pressed the wrong button.

and that I really wouldn't put anything corrupt beyond the realm of possibility with these folks. I know I sound like a fucking raving mad-man, but I can explain it if you really want me to, and once I explain it, I'm pretty confident that you'd agree with me.

legal parlance. We go and make a cup of tea.

Heck, if they're so desperate to impress their TV messages on our minds that they'll strain out sound levels from lower registers, to sound more shrill, what makes you think subliminal advertising would be beneath them! Once again, capitalism run amock.

in the least bit redolent of any kind of academic study of psychology or anything else, at least judging from their Home page.

Ostensibly, it looks like a very commercial outfit to me - as the word "coporation" would suggest. Yet I believe this was the only "authority" alleged to rebut the claims concerning the efficacy of subliminal advertising, referred to in that Snopes article. Or did I miss another disputant "authority"?

http://www.applegate.co.uk/company/12/12/466.htm

Apparently, its also called Applegate, and vaunts itself as Promotong the Best of Industry, Technology and Manufacturing in the UK and Ireland. Don't miss a trick, do they?

What do you think?

And how about the higher-volume effect of TV ads, due to the straining out of lower acoustic registers? Do they still do that? I think they do in the UK, even for the trailers of later programmes.

Working people in particular have enough stress in their lives without having ads suddenly blaring out at them, its effects nullifying their volume control, when they try to relax of an evening.

some day I'll tell you about the time I played the town board meeting backwards over the air :)

Lawsuit! I feel it coming!

though anything's possible, I guess.

You aren't watching shows on TV, you're merely watching a different form of advertisement for a different group of advertisers. Even movies are commercials for the actors in them and the products they can make look cool. Shows that talk about celebrities are actually commercials for commercials. We watch commercials for commercials, presented as entertainment.

and then they were shown not to have any real effect on people. I'd say it was a glitch.

McPtomaine's to run subliminal advertising, unless they did it during the show featuring the skinny blonde who uses all the salty, preservative laden junk food in her recipes.

I mean, really! People who watch Food TV love to cook, want to learn how to cook, and are motivated to get away from fast food.

They'd have better luck running those ads during the endless motorcycle shows on Discovery.

wouldn't be arrogant enough to try it?

MSNBC has been advertising openly a new "feature" on it's website focusing on nuclear power. Guess what? Fucking GE owns MSNBC and GE also produces nuclear reactors!

In fact, they're quite critical.

Why are they even doing a story on it?

How many other stories from the main networks have you heard about nuclear energy?

Did you know that GE stands to gain financially from nuclear energy being championed, and in fact was on of a number of companies that called for a greenhouse gas cap, which would increase demand for nuclear energy?

This is like listening to Fox News in order to hear the truth about the Republican party.

Not only that, but at every turn they diminish the importance of the problems with nuclear energy.

From the website today:

Géothermique est un choix bien meilleur.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Teh image you are seeing right now is not a constant image. It's lights flashing hundreds of times per second. But the brain filters out the lapses to create the constant image you think your seeing. I don't really know if the newer LCD or plasma displays do the same.

Even sitcoms are becoming ads unto themselves. Reality shows? Forget it, they're hour-long advertisements. American Idol? It's got nothing to do with singing. The winner is chosen based on how much they can sell out.

WHAT THE HELL ELSE are they doing!!!???

Everyone remembers the RATS??

Actually it might not be against the law hot sex when people look at the
TV screen blow job and see that little message come through eat me they
sometimes get frightened orgasm and turn away in an instant love machine
either that or they really like the way it turns out erection when you
change the channels and it happens again nice breasts.

At McDonalds.

It even smells rank when I walk by the place....