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walt fristoe
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 03/03/2003 : 18:19:47
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This may be old news, but it's the first I've heard about it.
Subliminal Campaign Ad
And again here.
I'm curious to hear your comments concerning this outrage.
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Espritch
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 03/03/2003 : 19:00:46 [Permalink]
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This is old stuff. I'm surprised you hadn't heard about it.
I have no doubt the subliminal parts of the add were deliberate. Politicians spend way too much money on these adds for me to believe any part of one is accidental. Of course this was a major national news story when it first came out. I suspect the backlash from it cost Bush more votes than the subliminal stuff got him, so I'm not really outraged about it.
I am annoyed that the twit managed to get elected in spite of this kind of crap. |
| Edited by - Espritch on 03/03/2003 19:02:33 |
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/03/2003 : 20:13:02 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by walt fristoe
I'm curious to hear your comments concerning this outrage.
Surely you don't think subliminal advertising actually works, do you?
[You know the "RATS" was not visible to anyone actually just normally watching the stupid ad in the first place? It is only possible to see it by slowing it down frame-by-frame. The whole thing was just a bunch of ridiculous nonsense, by the ad creators if they even purposely added it in the first place, which is highly doubtful, and by the idiots who actually cried foul like it was some dastardly deed by the Republicans.]
[Sorry Walt, in reading this I may have come off sounding much more harsh than I meant to (towards you, I mean).] |
| Edited by - Tokyodreamer on 03/04/2003 06:48:37 |
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2003 : 01:24:23 [Permalink]
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I've had enough experience of media sessions where an agency dweeb wastes two or three hours, with the meter running, making the engineer make utterly irrelevant, insignificant changes to a mix they had already approved, to hold the opinion that there's probably no shortage of ad people who are dumbass enough to try a technique that was thoroughly debunked years ago, just to try to impress the client with something "slick".
And don't get me started on video people. Or Republicans.  |
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