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Bush looked as if the carrier was about to run him down. Was there a subliminal message inside the sublime message?
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the sublime message?
It wasn't a "sub".
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Carpal Tunnel
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the sublime message?
It wasn't a "sub". Oh, it was a lime message, then? 
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a lime message
Sailors always eat limes. For the scurvy, ya know.
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Sub...sailors...! [smacking forehead e] :-)
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Carpal Tunnel
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> cynemetic The cynical use of film trickery for nauseating political gain.
I was thinking some more about this recently - it's prolly too artificial to gain wider currency...
A simpler way of expressing this aspect of the 'black arts of spin' is therfore suggested:
Blackground A cynical manipulation of background imagery
This can function as a verb ("the carrier was blackgrounded behind Bush...") or as a noun ("Blair is a typical sleaze-ball blackgrounder...").
Any takers?
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Blackground
Not bad, But most manipulation of this sort is more grey than black (your examples excepted).
The old standby "photo opp" probably works as well as anything.
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Naah--t quite; I think it carries too much connotation of negativity--that is, that the purpose would be to deliberately make the setting negative in some way, or perhaps to cover up something negative. For me, this word just doesn't cover an effort, albeit false and patently so, to improve an image.
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