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Quote by Joey Skaggs

“But my favorite work is always my next piece.”

Quote by Joey Skaggs

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Joey Skaggs, born in 1945, is a mysterious artist and performer known for his social and political commentary. His works often involve carefully planned fraud and deception to reveal social structures and power relations. more

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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