Joey Skaggs Quotes
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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 manoeuvered.
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I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
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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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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.
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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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I've always been a fine artist.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
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What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
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The media's job is to question a premise.
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My art became very public.
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Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
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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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But my favorite work is always my next piece.
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