Joey Skaggs Quotes

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• Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
• When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
• Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
• But my favorite work is always my next piece.
• But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
• I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
• It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
• If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
• It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and…
• Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
• The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
• The media's job is to question a premise.
• What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
• My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is,…
• I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
• We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a…
• Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
• I've always been a fine artist.
• My art became very public.

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