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Joey Skaggs Biography

Joey Skaggs (born 1945) 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. Skaggs has used Kim Yung Soo, Joe Bones, Joseph Bonuso, Giuseppe Scaggioli, Dr. Joseph Gregor, and the Rev. Anthony Joseph as aliases.

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

Journalist, Salt, Trust, Trust Me, Worth

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

Adjusted, Manoeuvered, Massage, Media, Messages

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.

Artist, Enable, Hope, Ideas, People, Satirical

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

Attention, Complex, Felt, Issues, Manipulators, Passionate

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

Deviation, Hatred, Perversion, Prejudice, Target, Usually

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

Hands, Intentions, Media, Misrepresented, News, Operates

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

Believe

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

Fake People, Important, Realistic, Satirical, Story, Twists

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.

Bills, Tribes, Function, Household, Products, Mentality

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

Attacked, Created, Humiliated, Majority, Media, Voice

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

Convince, Help, People, Reality, Trying

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.

Easier, Everything, Faith, If I Could, Life

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Service, Stories, Successful, Wire

My art became very public.

Art, Art Is, Became, Public

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.

Aggravation, Stories, Release, Come, Reporters

I've always been a fine artist.

Artist, Fine, Fine Artists

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

Fool, Fooled, Thinking, Thinks

The media's job is to question a premise.

Job, Jobs, Media, Premise, Premises, Question

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

Pieces, Next, My Favorite, Piece, Favorite, Work