Subliminal Mind Control on Your TV -- NOW

[snot]

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/

[mtnester]

1. Illegal

or so I thought

[Wizard777]

13. In theaters yes. But dending upon the language of the law. It may not include TV. n/t

[mtnester]

16. I thought theaters were OK and TV not

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

[CBGLuthier]

26. LINK to snopes article here

Actually the whole thing was pretty much bullshit but anyway

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

[CBGLuthier]

23. Actually the other way around

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.

[CBGLuthier]

15. not illegal

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.

[mtnester]

18. I do...it makes more sense with product placement

thanks

[originalpckelly]

20. Yes, that's the real subliminal advertising...

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

[Wizard777]

30. Autohypnotic suggestion. Hypnosis is not effective on everyone.

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.

[DaveJ]

36. It could be made effective

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.

[burythehatchet]

2. Very popular technique in movie theatres

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

[Kelly Rupert]

8. This conspiracy theory brought to you by 1956

:eyes:

[Greyhound]

28. Conspiracies do exist, we call the successful ones government and religion.

[Kelly Rupert]

39. And those "conspiracies" are overt.

[The Stranger]

44. Overt to whom?

[malaise]

42. Touche! n/t

[NYCGirl]

3. I'd bet that was a glitch, not a subliminal ad. NT

[helderheid]

5. that was my first thought as well. n/t

[originalpckelly]

11. Oh, this country just fucked enough, and the fucking ruling elites...

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.

[NYCGirl]

Why would they try to do subliminal ads when they run MINUTE LONG ads?

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

[originalpckelly]

17. Actually, I was just pointing out the arrogance of these people...

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.

[Joe Chi Minh]

34. Can't you see? Ads can be dismissed as mere ads, "puffs" in English

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.

[NYCGirl]

37. First of all, because it doesn't work.

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

[Joe Chi Minh]

40. I Googled "Psychologial Corporation" and didn't find their site

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.

[KittyWampus]

27. me too, I've worked on local tv and had friends work cable. Gitches happen all the time

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

[Duer 157099]

4. Ooooo, I'm going to try to capture one too!

Lawsuit! I feel it coming!

[Kelly Rupert]

6. My money there is on a queueing glitch

though anything's possible, I guess.

[porphyrian]

7. Everything on television is a commercial.

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.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Subliminal ads were made illegal in the '50s

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

[Warpy]

10. I'd think Food TV would be the LAST place for

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.

[originalpckelly]

14. Oh you have doubt and outrage? Really? You don't think the people who own this country...

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!

[NYCGirl]

22. I just read some of the articles on nuclear power. They're hardly cheerleading it.

In fact, they're quite critical.

[originalpckelly]

29. Why are you even thinking about nuclear power?

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.

[NYCGirl]

33. They're supposed to pretend it doesn't exist?

From the website today:

[originalpckelly]

35. Excusez-moi? Il n'est pas clair!

Géothermique est un choix bien meilleur.

[cynatnite]

12. Probably a glitch, but now I want a big mac n/t

[Done]

19. You did not see a McDonald's ad.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Wizard777]

21. The internet would be a better place to that.

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.

[Initech]

24. What ISN'T a commercial on television these days?

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.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. I was sure this was going to be about Baby Einstein... n/t

[Luckyduck]

31. Makes ya wonder

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

Everyone remembers the RATS??

[TX-RAT]

41. I do

[troubleinwinter]

32. "Mind Control"??!! Hahaha! Must eat McDonald's now! Pffft.

[Parche]

38. SUBLIMINAL

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.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

43. So, how was the Big Mac?

[depakid]

45. Hard to believe that people who watch the food network would eat

At McDonalds.

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