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Joey Skaggs
American
Celebrity
About the author
What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
But my favorite work is always my next piece.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Work
#Favorite
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
I've always been a fine artist.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Artist
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Successful
#Service
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Fool
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,
American
Celebrity
#Time
#Life
#Faith
#Question
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Attention
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,
American
Celebrity
#Duty
#Press
My art became very public.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Public
#Art
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,
American
Celebrity
#Hope
#People
#Work
#Ideas
#Challenge
#Question
#Present
#Beliefs
#Artist
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,
American
Celebrity
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#People
#Help
#Reality
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#First
#Media
#News
#Intentions
The media's job is to question a premise.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Question
#Job
#Media
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Prejudice
#Hatred
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
Joey Skaggs,
American
Celebrity
#Trust
#Worth