> 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?