Joey Skaggs Remembers His 1994 National Enquirer Hoax
by Joey Skaggs, EditorFiled under: Creative Activism, Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking, Illusion and Magic, Media Literacy, Media Pranks, Pranksters, Truth that's Stranger than Fiction
Note to Jeff Bezos: Take a page from me and screw the National Enquirer!
In 1994, after The New York Times Magazine published John Tierney’s article, Falling For It, about my Dog Meat Soup hoax, the National Enquirer called and said they were doing a profile about me. They wanted an exclusive photo shoot. Not liking or respecting this publication, I declined. They said they were going to do the story with or without any assistance from me. So, I sent an impostor to two different photo shoots.
They published this story:
Page Six of the New York Post exposed the hoax:
