Best 14 quotes of Joey Skaggs on MyQuotes

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

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

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

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

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

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

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

I've always been a fine artist.

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

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.

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.

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

The media's job is to question a premise.

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