Bumper sticker for anti-plutocracy group dedicated to exposing the 1%’s disproportionate influence on American democracy and the political system, Billionaires for Bush (or Gore).
Issues of The Onion, a satirical newspaper whose tactical use of irony and deadpan promotion of patently “fake news” is tuned to the same oppositional frequency as much culture-jammer wit.
Letter from former National Lampoon editor Brian McCormick, accompanied by a copy of his artist’s book, The Immortality Project, in response to my NYT article on culture jamming;
collection of articles about, and book (Narcissism and Me) by, merry prankster Richard Grayson;
letter in response to my NYT article on culture jamming from self-styled jammer Adam Quest, together with his manuscripts For Your Information and Dossier of Untruth;
letter and related articles from culture jamming scholar Kembrew McLeod;
publisher’s catalogue announcement of The Book of Lies: History’s Greatest Fakes, Frauds, Schemes, and Scams;
excerpts from Re/Search book Pranks!;
fake passport for “Refugee Republic,” a work of conceptual art/culture jamming/political agit-prop created by a European pro-immigration group;
Bull Street Journal, parody of “America’s favorite business newspaper”;
three-page typescript of quotes from “Colin” and Columbia journalism dean Stephen Isaacs from interviews by Mark Dery for NYT article on culture jamming;
letters to NYT about my culture jamming article from McCormick (see above) and noted media hoaxer Alan Abel;
letter containing fake U.S.P.S. stamps by a culture jammer and related article, bundled together (by me) with related media coverage;
letter from “visual/conceptual/performance artist” Jay Critchley accompanied by photocopies of articles about his culture jamming activities; Island Records alert about Bootsy Collins impersonator; letter, on Marriott Hotel stationery, in response to my NYT article on culture jamming, suggesting I include various hoaxers and pranksters in the book I intended to write on CJ;
Articles on RTMark and etoys, advocates of “acts of cultural sabotage” (NYT);
Pat Paulsen, tongue-in-cheek presidential candidate;
April Fool’s hackers;
Face magazine, #73, May 1986 article on media hoax staged by Face writer James Truman, involving Bruce Springsteen impersonator and his encounters with fans, some credulous, some not;
article on fake issue of Columbia Daily Spectator;
article on artist J.S.G. Boggs, who drew photorealistic copies of U.S. currency, then tried to get merchants to accept them as legal tender;
Village Voice mention of hoax related to the Oklahoma bomber, Timothy McVeigh;
NYT mention of media hoax that hoodwinked President Bill Clinton;
cover story by satirical magazine Spy about its “great presidential endorsement hoax”;
NYT mention of hoax related to Walt Disney World;
photocopy of newspaper story of an “anarchist anti-establishment group” that used fake tickets to attempt to enter a fundraising luncheon for Hubert Humphrey;
New York magazine articles on hoaxer behind Pan Am 103 conspiracy theory;
NYT magazine item on tongue-in-cheek Church of Kurt Cobain;
NYT item on Princess Diana hoax that snookered the Fleet Street rags;
Scientific American article on the Ig Nobels, satirical awards for dubious scientific “breakthroughs”;
parody items from “Pranks” issue of Larry Flynt-published magazine Rage, to which I contributed an article;
mention of Cokie Roberts’s stunt in which she pretended to do a live report from the field while she was, in fact, in her Washington studio;
NYT article on fake news about author Kurt Vonnegut;
Entertainment Weekly article on fabrications by David Letterman guests;
three articles on false claims about needles found in cans of Pepsi-Cola as well as actual tampering;
NYT article on increasingly “fake” nature of nightly news, due to “tabloid” influence;
printout from website about trolls, hoaxes, culture jamming, mass delusions;
printout of website article on Internet hoaxes;
printout of listing for Big Book of Hoaxes;
printout of article on Hitler diaries hoax;
printout of review of Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater;
NYT op-ed about NBC faking “a fiery collision during a prime-time ‘expose’ of exploding gas tanks on General Motors pickup trucks”;
NYT article on same subject; Wilson Quarterly item on sloppy science reporting; NYT item on “old LSD tattoo hoax”;
NYT article, “A Bull Market for Fraud Emerges in Hard Times”;
Sunday Punch article on prankish, tongue-in-cheek letters sent to/from corporations;
Spy magazine satirical cover for article on Hillary Clinton (issue also includes various items and articles on Spy parodies and pranks, critiques of broadcast news outlets);
NYT article on “Internet’s Chain of Foolery”;
NYT article on “fakers and imposters” (“James Gatz, Please Call Your Office”);
New Yorker article on Matt Jacobson, serial imposter;
NYT article, “The Long and Winding Cyberhoax: Political Theater on the Web”;
NYT article on fraud involving fake tale of “stricken teenager”;
World Press Review article on media hoaxers and culture jammers, “America’s Most Gullible”;
printout of NYT article on prankster’s hoax (“Newt Gingrich, a Vegetarian?”);
Omni article, “The Lure of the Hoax”;
NYT review of book, “a history of falsehood”; Utne Reader item on the anthropological hoax involving supposed “Tasaday tribesmen.”