"If I'm successful in fooling a wire service,……" — Joey Skaggs
"If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story."
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19 Quotes by Joey Skaggs
Joey Skaggs has 19 quotes on this site.
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Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
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When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
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Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
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But my favorite work is always my next piece.
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But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
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I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
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It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but…
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Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider…
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The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and…
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The media's job is to question a premise.
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What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
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