What is the name for a hidden message in something like a newspaper,?

Question

What is the name for a hidden message in something like a newspaper, where the first letter on each line is part of a spelling.
Eg.

Bob ssdlcmzx
A dkslv
Sat skvms,c
Elephants dk
Ball
A dkslv
Like vjcxvkb
Like xjcvk

=base ball
You must know what I mean and it’s Not an anagram

Answer 1

Subliminal messages <<< Ignore that. It's wrong.

Additional: Your example was rubbish, but it came to me, what you actually meant. It's called an "acrostic".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic

Answer 2

You are referring to a basic version of the Equidistant Letter Sequencing (ELS) code. This is widely popular because of biblical theories that use it to find "prophetic" sentiments in many holy readings.


--- from Chapter 11 (see link)---
It boils down to first establishing a keyword that we want to find within the text. Next the computer starts looking for the first occurrence of the first letter in the text. When found the second letter is searched for. Now the distance between first and second letter in characters is determined, let’s say the two letters occur within a distance of 50 characters. Now the rest of the Bible text is scanned but this time only the characters with a 50-character interval are scanned to search for the next characters in the initial word. When the whole word is found, the scanning continues to find other possible related words.

The Bible Code was introduced to the public at large when investigative reporter Michael Drosnin entered the scene and wrote the by now famous book ‘The Bible Code.’ The Bible Code revealed a lot of historical names, places and facts within the Old Testament, the assassinations of Lincoln, Kennedy, Ghandi, references to the Oklahoma bombing, World War II, the fall of the Iron Curtain. The Bible Code took on prophetic qualities when Drosnin warned Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin one year before he was assassinated, that the Bible Code predicted his murder. Not only was the exact date of the incident encoded but also the name of his murderer! A year later Rabin was murdered on the exact date mentioned in the Bible code and by the man mentioned therein.

Answer 3

The word you are looking for is steganogram. A steganogram is ANY message hidden in text or even in a picture.

Answer 4

Always
Crowbar
Real
Opaque
Negelected
Yo-yo
Misunderstood
= Acronym

Answer 5

Acrostic

Answer 6

Hidden messages were called the fifth column. I doubt if they were as obvious as you think.

Answer 7

a hidden message is called a code

Answer 8

Its an Equidistant letter sequence.

Answer 9

It's called a 'Subliminal' message

Answer 10

Are you talking about subliminal messaging?