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Student hoax wins magazine's top prize July 1, 2009

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Fake reportage winner in Paris Match (Independent):

"Amid its traditional mixture of glossy celebrity and gritty reportage, the magazine Paris Match published this week a searing double-page spread on student poverty in France.
The excellent black and white photographs of students prostituting themselves or looking for food in dustbins won the magazine's annual prize for student photojournalism. Student poverty certainly exists in France but the photos were entirely faked.
Before they received their trophy and €5,000 (£4,260) cheque at a ceremony on Wednesday, the prize-winners, Guillaume Chauvin and Rémi Hubert, read out a statement admitting to the hoax, stating that they had wanted to make a "powerful artistic gesture" attacking the "voyeurism" and gullibility of parts of the press."

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Popular Online Videos Teach Crafty Ways to Cheat On Tests ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes October 17, 2008

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Next thing they'll be reading students' blogs… Who is watching whom (and how):

" 'I don't think any of my teachers go to YouTube.' Famous last words from a student posting instructions on how to cheat."

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