RE: Subliminal Messages

I think that to some extent, subliminal messages are still very much in use. I don't think that they are being used in the very obvious way we expect (i.e. overtly sexual ads, etc). In visual and verbal rhetoric, we are currently covering how different visual images are a form of rhetoric based on how the receiver interprets the message. I think that there are things being said, without words, but with these images that allow us to draw our own conclusion, and if we are influenced by mainstream ideals, then we are probably going to get the "underlying" message the creator is hoping we will see.