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Media Hoax
If You’re Reading This, You’ve Already Been Conned: Joey Skaggs Doc Premieres in LES
Good God, we’re easy to fool.
It feels a bit counterintuitive to be writing, in the media, about media hoaxer Joey Skaggs. Skaggs, who was interviewed this past week by the Observer, has made a name for himself since the 1960s through elaborate pranks that aim to highlight the absurdity of our media culture. So how’s a writer to know he’s not being punk’d by a man who describes fooling the media “as easy as a bowel movement”?
Watch Out, New York City: Hoax Master Joey Skaggs Is in Town
No matter what happens to the technology and delivering the information, there will always be artists and there will always be satire.
