Joey Skaggs

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

— Joey Skaggs

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

— Joey Skaggs

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

— Joey Skaggs

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

— Joey Skaggs

I've always been a fine artist.

— Joey Skaggs

The media's job is to question a premise.

— Joey Skaggs

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

— Joey Skaggs

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

— Joey Skaggs

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

— Joey Skaggs

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be…

— Joey Skaggs

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs.…

— Joey Skaggs

My art became very public.

— Joey Skaggs

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

— Joey Skaggs

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

— Joey Skaggs

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of…

— Joey Skaggs

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

— Joey Skaggs

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

— Joey Skaggs

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

— Joey Skaggs

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't…

— Joey Skaggs