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" Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. "
Joey Skaggs
Important
Story
Edge
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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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" The media's job is to question a premise. "
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Premise
" When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. "
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People
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" What do we believe? Why do we believe it? "
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" Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. "
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Prejudice
Hatred
" I've always been a fine artist. "
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Artist
Fine
" 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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Challenge
Work
" Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me. "
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Salt
Her
Journalist
" It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. "
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Cannot
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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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News
Watching
" 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
Time
Question
" 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
Story
Service
" 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. "
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Tribe
Function
Mentality
" 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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Most
Me
Duty