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Have you ever notice that Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul are always drinking Coke on American Idol? Or that all the cars on "24" are made by Ford? Midmorning looks at the controversy over "stealth advertising," and at other ways that advertisers are trying to reach an audience that has learned to tune out commercials.

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