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Joey Skaggs [1945-0] American

Rank: 110
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Joey Skaggs is an American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. Skaggs is one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming.

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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.		101
Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.		102
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.	Hope	103
But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.		104
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.		105
When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.		106
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.		107
I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.		108
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.		109
What do we believe? Why do we believe it?		110
The media's job is to question a premise.		111
Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.		112
I've always been a fine artist.		113
My art became very public.		114
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.		115
But my favorite work is always my next piece.		116
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.		117

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