As fake news and media scams continue to proliferate, Rory O’Connor profiles some longstanding activists who are also merry media pranksters. Foremost among them, and granddaddy of the genre, is Joey Skaggs.

If you think America’s mainstream media is too compliant, corporate and controlled,
take heart: it could be worse. In fact, it is — in Japan.

This Sunday’s episode of ABC’s Boston Legal focusing on censorship was itself censored, purged of all references to Fox and Bill O’Reilly. And nobody’s talking.

How can you be sure that what you see and hear in the media is real and true?
After all, we live in an age of media scams and scandals — from Jayson Blair making it up in the New York Times to Bobby Read blowing it up on NBC’s Dateline - not to mention Jack […]