Top 17 Quotes by Joey Skaggs

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.

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.

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

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.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

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

The media's job is to question a premise.

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

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