I remember learning about subliminal advertising in Journalism school. Fascinating (and somewhat diabolical) to manipulate people with nude pictures in ice cubes and death masks in movies. But as I was searching around, I notice there are a lot of naysayers who deny it even exists. Oh come on, already. It’s so obvious. Remember all the uproar over the phallic symbol in “The Little Mermaid”? And do they really believe the tobacco and alcohol companies spend all those millions on market research to simply ignore a proven (albeit illegal) technique? Second for second it costs more to produce a TV ad than it costs to produce a TV show or feature film (http://www.classroomtools.com/sublimad.htm)
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