Joey Skaggs Quotes

• It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

  Joey Skaggs

  Thinking, Fool, Fooled

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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.

  Joey Skaggs

  Media, Messages, Massage

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

  Joey Skaggs

  Hatred, Prejudice, Target

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• What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

  Joey Skaggs

  Believe

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• The media's job is to question a premise.

  Joey Skaggs

  Jobs, Media, Premises

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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.

  Joey Skaggs

  Artist, Ideas, People

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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.

  Joey Skaggs

  Media, Voice, Hoaxes

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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.

  Joey Skaggs

  Bills, Tribes, Function

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

  Joey Skaggs

  Trust, Salt, Trust Me

  "The Boy Who Cried 'Fool'" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com. March 29, 2005.

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• I've always been a fine artist.

  Joey Skaggs

  Artist, Fine, Fine Artists

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

  Joey Skaggs

  Fake People, Important, Twists

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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.

  Joey Skaggs

  Aggravation, Stories, Release

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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.

  Joey Skaggs

  Faith, Easier, If I Could

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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.

  Joey Skaggs

  Successful, Wire, Stories

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

  Joey Skaggs

  Issues, Attention, Passionate

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

  Joey Skaggs

  Media, Hands, News

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• But my favorite work is always my next piece.

  Joey Skaggs

  Pieces, Next, My Favorite

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

  Joey Skaggs

  Reality, People, Trying

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• My art became very public.

  Joey Skaggs

  Art, Art Is

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