The original version of the Crackhead Jesus saga, premiered to sold out crowds, at an interactive event, during Miami Art Basel Week in 2007.
The once censored story, about the birth of modern-art-gonzo-journalism in America, was inspired by Florida Court Case #50-2006-CC-016579, dubbed, “The Crackhead Jesus Trials”, by media outlets.
2007- Miami New Times First Mentions Crackhead Jesus In Print.
The contentious title character, Crackhead Jesus, whose name has slowly creeped into the vernacular as urban slang, meaning; hypocrite, scoundrel or devil, has been mentioned, uncensored, in several mainstream media news outlets, including: The Miami New Times, Suffolk Times, The Happy Herald, South Florida Gay News and on FOX News, with Megyn Kelly, as well as with subtle censorship, by the USA Today Network and The Palm Beach Post.
The Palm Beach Post – Subtle Censorship.
On March 13, 2017, the following letter to the editor was sent to the USA Today Network editors:
To Whom It May Concern,
Subtle censorship is a slippery slope, filled with false narratives that create fake news and collapse public trust in news media outlets. On March 1, 2017, the USA Today Network published an article by Lisa Conley on the worldwide web titled, “Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. paints ‘diary of the world on canvas‘”.
The popular article was quickly picked up by several news outlets including The Tennessean, The Naples News and The Marco Eagle. Kudo’s to Conley for succinctly communicating the concept of the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM) and modern-art-gonzo-journalism for readers.
As Conley’s article gained audience, the real news headline was abruptly changed to a fake news headline: “Marco Visitor Vaca Paints To Create ‘Diary Of World On Canvas’”.
The truth is, my stage name, when performing in public with the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM), is the “Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo”, whether raising money for charities and scholarships in Marco Island or awareness about rarely covered social issues in venues across the United States.
The editorial decision to change the true title to a fake news headline is concerning and of interest to the public trust because, if anything I was in Marco working to raise awareness about dubious newspaper headlines while raising money for educating future competent investigative journalists, like Conley, not visiting or vacationing, as the title implies.
It is curious, to say the least, that the USA Today Network would choose to bury a story about modern-art-gonzo-journalism, by purposefully changing the title to mislead algorithms and search engines, at the height of public interest. USA Today editors, using archaic, truth-defying-standards, appear to rationalize the perpetuation of false narratives, through misleading headlines, as a way of dumbing down the public. It is no wonder that smart readers have fled, in hordes, from subscribing to the poetic-misinformation peddled by newspapers as fact.
Rather than informing, the substituted headline, serves to confuse readers and fans, none of which know me as Vaca, with a nonsensical caption that buries the popular story on the internet; thus, depriving students researching emerging art forms and art movements of cultural significance in human history, during revolutionary times of change.
The headline presumes rather than informs and assumes that public trust in reporting is infallible. Furthermore, the substituted headline serves to fuel recent Gallup Polls that indicate waning public trust in mainstream news media because subscribers and readers are not as dumb as editors seem to think. If an educated consumer is your best customer, how can you expect to gain new subscribers if you continue to dumb down your audience with bogus headlines?
The question for USA Today editors who chose to burden Conley’s work with a fake news headline, five days after the real news headline premiered on the internet is: “Will the headline, ‘Willie Nelson at Artis-Naples’ eventually be changed to read, “Nelson Visits Naples” and will a performance by Lady Gaga, Sting or Cher in Marco Island receive the headlines, “Marco Visitor [Whatever Lady Gaga, Sting, or Cher’s Last Name Is] Sings Songs About Life”?
Respectfully,
Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.
On March 14, 2017, editors at The USA Today Network changed the caption on Lisa Conley’s article once again. The third headline reads: “Marco visitor Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. puts ‘diary of the world on canvas'”.
Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network News
The new fake news headline, which corrects the artists name, still falsely suggests to readers that Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr., while on vacation in Marco, decided to put a diary of the world on canvas. The new, misleading internet headline, suggests to readers, that if Lady Gaga, Sting, or Cher were to perform in Marco Island, the Naples News headline would read, “Marco Visitor [Lady Gaga, Sting, Cher] Sings Songs About Life”.
It begs the question, “What was wrong with the original, honest headline, ‘Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. creates a diary of the world on canvas’, that editors felt compelled to change the caption for readers, not once but twice?”
Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network News
If USA Today Network editors wanted to include Marco Island in the caption, all they had to do to keep readers truthfully informed, rather than woefully misinformed, was add the words, “in Marco Island”, to the headline, so that it reads: “Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. creates a diary of the world on canvas in Marco Island”. Instead, editor’s at the USA Today Network chose to confuse and dumb down audiences with misleading news headlines, again.
USA Breaking News picks up story with true headline for readers.
In 2009, the New York, Suffolk Times used ‘Crackhead Jesus’ in print headlines.
The first time, “Crackhead Jesus”, was heard on television around the world, was on FOX News, with Megyn Kelly, during a now infamous live interview, about censorship and the arts.
Megyn Kelly FOX News Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.
“Women’s Day figurehead and Democratic Party Leader, Nancy Pelosi, set Women’s Rights, around the male dominated world, back generations, by failing to publicly denounce the racist sexual-assault gang rape joke about Kellyanne Conway, at a Congressional Dinner, made by misogynist democrats, that makes Donald Trump’s grabbing pussies joke, sound like a Hollywood handshake, in comparison.” – Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca II
On March 1, 2017 the USA Today Network published an article titled, “Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. creates ‘a diary of the world on canvas’”.Five days later, boosting the decline of public trust in news media, as noted in a recent Gallup Poll, editors at a USA Today publication used subtle-censorship to openly corrupt a factual header, in favor of a glaringly fake-news headline, to downplay a unique story about modern-art-gonzo-journalism and the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM). The trending internet article, by journalist Lisa Conley, about the curious career of the Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo, was printed in the Sunday March 5, 2017, Naples Daily Newspaper, under the headline, “Artist creates, ‘a diary of the world on canvas'”, after premiering globally on the USA Today Network, onthe same day that Democratic Congressman, Cedric Richmond, uttered a crude, gang-rape, sex-joke about the Counselor to President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, at The Washington Press Club Foundation’s Annual Congressional Dinner.
Impactful USA Today Network News Headline
“Between the famous name, the Naval Academy, “Crackhead Jesus” and Pink Floyd, Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr.’s story has everything.“:The caption read, as the article quickly caught public interest and was picked up over the next five days by several mainstream media news outlets across America including: The Tennessean, The Naples Daily News and The Marco Eagle.
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
As Lisa Conley’s article gained readers and momentum in shares, on social media networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, the real news headline was abruptly changed, to a fake-news internet headline, by USA Today editors, without explanation.
USA Today Network: Subtle-censorship.
The nonsensical caption negatively impacts search algorithms and serves to stunt the stories reach. Students of art movements and human history, are left confused, rather than informed, when using Google, Bing and other information gathering resources on the internet, to research the United States Naval Academy trained, New York born, Hispanic, multi-media artist, Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr., who is better known by his stage name, Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo, when performing as part of the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM), to raise money for charity and education scholarships, as well as elevate awareness about under-reported social issues, such as waning public trust in news media, at public events, like, Wet Paint Live, in Marco Island, Florida, as reported, in the USA Today Network article by Lisa Conley.
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. is listed in The Library Of Congress amongst some of the most influential artists in modern history, including The Beastie Boys, Shepard Fairey and The Wu Tang Clan, in the University/College reference book, by D.B. Burkeman, titled, “Stickers: From Punk Rock To Contemporary Art”. The Maverick Artist Victor-Hugo is known to no one in the entertainment industry or in his private life as, Vaca.
The headline “Marco visitor Vaca paints to create ‘diary of the world on canvas'” begs the questions: “If a USA Today journalist goes to Syria on assignment, would USA Today editors say the reporters are visiting or working to gather useful news and information for public consumption and if the artist Willie Nelson performs in Naples, will the Naples News headline read, “Nelson Visits Naples”?
Artist Willie Nelson USA Today Network
The same week, USA Today Editors, corrupted truth with false narrative, a story headlined, “Willie Nelson at Artis-Naples” was published in The Naples Daily News. The Naples News editors, who inexplicably chose to burden Conley’s work with a fake news headline, were then asked: “Wouldthe headline for a performance by Lady Gaga, Sting or Cher in Marco Island read; “Marco Visitor [Whatever Lady Gaga, Sting, or Cher’s Last Name is] Sings Songs About Life”?
According to USA Today Network editors, when asked to provide an explanation for this betrayal of public trust and answer why they chose to surreptitiously alter a fact based headline in favor of heralding a grossly misleading caption as truth for subscribers, the following statement was provided:
“We used the phrase Marco visitor because we try to emphasize local angles in headlines to distinguish our local stories from all of the state, nation and world stories available on our website and others. We used just his last name in the headline because that is standard practice in American journalism to keep headlines shorter and thus more readable. It’s not standard practice to put Jr. in a headline unless necessary to distinguish someone from his father. In this case, that wasn’t necessary because few of our readers would think of his father.”
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
It is curious, to say the least, that the USA Today Network would choose to bury a story about modern-art-gonzo-journalism, by purposefully changing the title to mislead algorithms and search engines, at the height of public interest. USA Today editors, using archaic, truth-defying-standards, appear to rationalize the perpetuation of false narratives, through fake news headlines, as a way of dumbing down the public. It is no wonder that smart readers have fled, in hordes, from subscribing to the poetic-misinformation peddled by newspapers.
The Palm Beach Post censors film title.
On October 29, 2010, The Palm Beach Post used subtle-censorship in the form of nine question marks, ?????????, to corrupt the title of the award-winning film, “Crackhead Jesus: The Movie”; a film written, produced and directed by Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr., as part of the 2010 Delray Beach Film Festival 72-Hour Movie-Making Competition.
“Crackhead Jesus: The Movie” Marquee.
When the 72-Hour Film Competition winner was screened alongside cult classic films, “Pink Floyd’s: The Wall” and Stanley Kubrick’s, “A Clockwork Orange”, in Lake Worth, Florida, as part of the Halloween Modern Art Music Movement Midnight Cult Movie MAMM Jam, the fake Palm Beach Post movie listing caused needless confusion for subscribers in the surrounding community and realized lost revenue for the theater owner and event producers.
Subtle-censorship by The Palm Beach Post.
To the credit of USA Today publications, though editors chose to stifle proliferation of the story of modern-art-gonzo-journalism on the internet, with a fake news headline, they did not censor, in print newspaper or on the internet, the contentious name of the title character, Crackhead Jesus, from the controversial, award-winning film, inspired by court documented events.
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
To credit USA Today publication editors at the Naples Daily News, which claims an audience of 70,995 Sunday and 60,232 daily, they did not use a fake news headline in the print newspaper version of Lisa Conley’s article, published on March 5th, 2010.
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
Modern-art-gonzo-journalism serves as a bridge between art and journalism, to help people understand the other side of the story, by seeing past the truth, through the Modern Art Music Movement (MAMM).
Modern Art Gonzo Journalism.
As newspapers struggle to stay relevant, it is only a matter of time before fake news headlines on websites perpetuated in big, bold letters and words, that ultimately mean nothing and only serve to confuse facts, will consume public trust and further alienate a growing skeptical internet audience.
The question for editors at USA Today remains the same: “Will the headline, ‘Willie Nelson at Artis-Naples’ eventually be changed to read, “Nelson Visits Naples” and will a performance by Lady Gaga, Sting or Cher in Marco Island receive the headlines, “Marco Visitor [Whatever Lady Gaga, Sting, or Cher’s Last Name Is] Sings Songs About Life”?
Artist Victor-Hugo Vaca Jr. USA Today Network
“Subtle censorship is a slippery slope, filled with false narratives that create fake news and collapse public trust in news media outlets.” -Maverick Artist Victor Hugo Vaca Jr.
NBC, the network that hired an admitted fabricator of truth to report fake news, saw fit to chastise anyone who criticized the children of President Obama, however, NBC sees nothing wrong in humiliating the child of President Trump, thereby heralding a global mainstream acceptance of bullying white people and their children.
In America, it is okay to be racist, if you only show hatred towards white people, and are Black, Muslim or Latino, according to fake news networks like CNN and NBC.
In America, rape culture and Sharia Law are no big deal , according to fake news networks like CNN and NBC, but the size of President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day audience versus that of President Obama’s, is huge, “news”.
In the United States, women are paid less than men, children have fewer rights than pets and sport is used to distract the general public from the fleecing of America by Wall Street banks, multi-national corporations and corrupt government leaders.
There is a wealthy, Woman, filled with white-guilt, who is against Sharia Law and vehemently anti-Trump, protesting a ban on potential threats to homeland security, alone, under a designer umbrella, on a private-beach, near a curious sign, yards from her fortified, multi-million dollar mansion, while her third husband, who suffers from erectile dysfunction and toxic masculinity, surfs Ashley Madison and Craigslist, on silk sheets, for cheap thrills and satisfaction.
“There is an epidemic of hypocrisy in the United States.” – Victor-Hugo Vaca II
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