# Fooling the news media (maybe Palin knows where Africa is!)

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 17, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fooling-the-news-media-maybe-palin-knows-where-africa-is/473135 "2008-11-17T16:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fooling-the-news-media-maybe-palin-knows-where-africa-is/473135/21 "2008-11-18T00:48:56Z")

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> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Wasn’t there a “performance artist” back in the 70’s that made a career of pulling similar pranks, sending out fake press releases for press conferences that had him posing as a newsworthy expert or bureaucrat?

> **[Joey Skaggs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Skaggs)**
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> Joey Skaggs (born 1945) is an American multi-media artist, activist, and educator. His work spans a range of media, including painting, sculpture, guerrilla theater, performance art, films, and media pranks, often in the form of socially revealing hoaxes. He is regarded as one of the originators of culture jamming.
> Joey Skaggs, originally trained as a painter and sculptor, started producing performance art in the 1960s, using public spaces and mass media to present his work. His projects often i...

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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fooling-the-news-media-maybe-palin-knows-where-africa-is/473135/22 "2008-11-18T01:09:09Z")

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> [@E-Sabbath](#):
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> [Joey Skaggs - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Skaggs)
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> Yep. Course, nobody’d do anything like that today.  
> [www.nytimes-se.com](http://www.nytimes-se.com)

That [nytimes-se.com](http://nytimes-se.com) site is terrible though.

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fooling-the-news-media-maybe-palin-knows-where-africa-is/473135/23 "2008-11-18T01:47:09Z")

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Dang, that’ll teach me to not read the whole thread.

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