As I can remember from my linguistic classes (and I've been writing my MA on pragmatic linguistics) the very man who has pionieered this idea (Mr. There is no such thing as honest advertising imo, but I agree with the OP that it's especially annoying with things like product placement and flashing single-frame images as since there's no warning, there's no possibility for the viewer to choose not to watch the ad.Īt first I'd likely agree that FoxNews doesn't seem to be a responsible news channel at all but this whole issue of a subliminal advertising sounds really bogus. I am a firm believer in the concept of Thought Police, so when I feel like a place is thought-policing, I just ignore it. Rather than decrying the shortcomings of the human race, just tune it out and focus on living your life. Just tune it out, and your life will be better for it. In fact, I am cynical and jaded toward "news" because the concept that journalism still exists in a pure way ended with the internet. People just look to pour on any last thing they can hold on to to hate them. I'm sick of how people always cry foul whenever Fox News does anything. Considering those commercials are going to be from the same ones that run during other times on the air, there you are. It happens with live programming all the time. Most likely, what's going on is tiny snippets of advertisements that get clipped before they go live. I'll go track down the various findings of that in my textbook if you really want, but honestly considering how far behind I am on homework, if I open it I'll probably spend 3 hours doing actual important work. I'm sort of in the mass media communications department at my school. Last I checked subliminal advertising was illegal, unless I am wrong and you're suddenly allowed to influence the public using deceptive imagery which has been PROVEN to work.Īctually that study was discredited back in the 70s, IIRC.
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