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Sanity -> RE: Behavior Placement (4/18/2010 9:58:01 AM)
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So your position on subliminal messaging is that anything goes? Am I reading you wrong here?
Generally, a question to everyone, if there is a line that should not be crossed, where does it lie?
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
The premise here goes beyond GE's objective of selling more goods. Certainly, keeping a product (or use of that product) in the public eye helps sales, as people are more likely to buy and use something that easily comes to mind--not because they are brainwashed, but because as the need arises, they will readily think of the product.
To suggest that viewers will vote how they're told based on TV programs goes a lot further than this. To at the same time disassociate it from the obvious influence FOX has is cherry picking. The implication that GE is now a liberal propaganda machine is absurd.
The messages in shows are the writers'/producers'. There's nothing wrong with themes either--without them, all shows would be meaningless drivel. Those messages are going to reflect political positions--hell, how could they not, and still address any important part of life?
I saw Avatar, and I agree--the green was laid on very thick. But I don't think it's guilty of anything other than superficial writing on rehashed ideas, and it's influence is limited to demonstrating that the future of 3D might be cool.
To feel otherwise is to claim "I'm immune to the secret plot, but the other weak-minded Americans are going to fall for this scheme." It's a new marketing technique, period. Probably annoying at times, just as product placement. But its purpose is to pay for the shows. QED.
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