Joey Skaggs
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.Collection: Trust
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.Collection: Thinking
The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.Collection: Media
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.Collection: Hatred
What do we believe? Why do we believe it?Collection: Believe
The media's job is to question a premise.Collection: Jobs
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, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.Collection: Artist
I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.Collection: 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 household of products.Collection: Bills
I've always been a fine artist.Collection: Artist
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.Collection: Fake People
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.Collection: Aggravation
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 I won't do it.Collection: Faith
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.Collection: Successful
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.Collection: Issues
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.Collection: Media
But my favorite work is always my next piece.Collection: Pieces
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.Collection: Reality
My art became very public.Collection: Art