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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 88
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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CARTOONS: Subliminal Cuts On a Child's Head
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CARTOONS: Subliminal Cuts On a Child's Head
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AUGUST 12, 1989
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"Could That ALF Cartoon Be Flashing You a Hidden Message?"
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By Doug Hill, with Ken Sobel
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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"How paranoid do you want to be?"
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[JD: Very poor choice of words, Doug. The appropriate word is
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"suspicious." How suspicious should an astute person be, upon
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discovering this subterfuge? The American Heritage Dictionary
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defines paranoia as:
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"A nondegenerative, limited, usually chronic psychosis
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characterized by delusions of persecution or of grandeur,
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strenuously defended by the afflicted with apparent
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logic and reason."
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Paranoia ain't what we got here, Doug. You know that
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because you researched this story.]
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"Would it worry you that a program on network television contained
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a subliminal message? Would it worry you more if the subliminal
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message was a political message? And what if that political
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message was hidden in a Saturday morning cartoon show watched by
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your kids?"
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"Subliminal messages, for those who aren't paranoid [suspicious,
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Doug] enough to be worried about them already, are messages that
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are flashed on the screen too quickly to be perceived by the
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conscious mind. They are perceived, however, by the subconscious
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mind, and many people believe that they can be used to influence
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behavior without the viewer being aware that anything is happening."
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"Although there is no Federal law against them, the Federal
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Communications Commission does not look kindly on the inherent
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sneakiness of subliminal messages, and any station that knowingly
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puts them on the air could be fined or, conceivably, lose its
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license. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be paying much attention
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to make sure that subliminal messages AREN'T being put on the air,
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as Ken Sobel, a 36-year-old businessman from Long Island,
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New York, found out."
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"Last year, Sobel videotaped an episode of ALF, the animated
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version of NBC-TV's prime hit. Watching the videotape, he
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noticed what he described as a glitch, a slight stutter that
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seemed out of place. It occurred in the midst of a battle sequence
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between two fleets of spaceships at just the moment when one of
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the spaceships crashed and exploded. Curious, he rewound the
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tape and watched the sequence again. Again he noticed the stutter,
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but couldn't quite catch what it was. Using his `PAUSE' button,
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he finally managed to freeze the frame that had caused the glitch."
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"He fell back in his chair -- stunned at what he was seeing."
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"Frozen, the image was very clear indeed. It had been drawn in
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a rough animation style, different from the rest of the cartoon,
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but with some similarities. In the background was the red,
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white and blue American flag. In front of that was a drawing of
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the statue of liberty. Across the screen, diagonally, from the
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upper left corner to the lower right, in block letters,
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was the word:
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A
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M
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C
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[JD: As former high-ranking C.I.A. official John Stockwell
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points out, television brainwashes our children with patriotic
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fervor, and makes them WANT to go to war and very possibly die
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to further enrich the empire builders who put their own children
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in seats of power and wealth -- not on bloody battlefields.]
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"This image, which had nothing to do with the episode, occupied
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exactly one frame of the tape, which meant that, at normal speed,
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it flashed by the viewer at 1/30th of a second. For most people,
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that would be invisible, and thus, subliminal. And, although not
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everyone whom Sobel subsequently showed the videotape to believed
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that the frame had any meaning at all, to Sobel it communicated
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an obvious symbolic message: pro-American patriotism. Since he
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considers himself as patriotic as the next guy, this was not
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necessarily a message with which Sobel disagreed.
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That someone might be trying to slip such a message into cartoon
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shows, with the intention of influencing children, without their
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knowledge, and that this program might be sold for broadcast
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outside the United States -- that was something else entirely."
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.....
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"Ken Sobel ... and the TV GUIDE reporter met with Rick Gitter,
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a vice-president in the Advertising Standards Department of
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NBC-TV. Although NBC, CBS and ABC all have policies stating that
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subliminal messages in [television] advertising are unacceptable,
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those policies say nothing about subliminal messages in programs.
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Nor do the networks actively monitor their programs OR their
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COMMERCIALS to make sure that they do not contain such messages." ...
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[JD: It's important to realize that, following this meeting,
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NBC moguls very likely contacted their cartoonists in Japan,
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alerted them to the inquisitors who were about to visit them,
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and concocted an alibi for the cartoonists to throw back in
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response to what would surely be incriminating questions.]
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.....
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....[At] "Studio Korumi ... in a suburb about an hour outside
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Tokyo .... the animators who labored there ... freely admitted
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having put the frame in the [cartoon] program, both to liven up
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the explosion sequence, and to liven up a boring work day.
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`I don't know if the Americans would understand,'
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said Yasumi Ishida, president of the company,
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`but sometimes we like to play around.'
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Why, then, would they choose such loaded imagery?
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`Since it was a cartoon for Americans,'
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Isida answered,
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`the artist threw in the most American symbols he
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could think of.'
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.....
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.... "Not to be paranoid, but how many other little subliminal
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messages might be slipping through?"
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[ END ]
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