It was the story that outraged Middle England. 13 art students claimed they took a grant, spent it on holiday in Spain, and then had the audacity to call their escapade ‘art’.
As planned, the press went after the students – writing column inches after column inches of righteous indignation. The students’ sunny snaps were printed in nearly every newspaper, and their motivations were interrogated on the evening news.
Except, this is exactly what the students wanted: the media-feeding frenzy was, in fact, the result of an elaborate and skillfully executed hoax.
Rather than lounge in the sun on taxpayer money the students had actually gone into hiding for a week, busying themselves with faking their photographs, postcards and props.
When the news broke that this was all a hoax the story only grew bigger. The art students had managed to hoodwink the all-powerful British tabloid media. The predictable media reaction, they said, had been the real art piece all along.
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This is…. beautiful. Well done to all involved.
“Piss artists” is the funniest sh*t I’ve ever heard
just look at the people who deliver your news. they are more than likely related to someone famous, or owns the agency. they dont do any of the investigation, they just look pretty and read the prompter and make 6 figures for lying to you or reading the companies narrative.
Best art exhibition I've ever been too.
Sound like everything going on now….kamala Harris at the border is actually her at a playground 😆
As a life time conceptual artist I dig this. I did make a quick search to be sure the story was true itself, which it is. My current art project Triptych Dialogue takes the words of anonymous interviews I conduct as audio to abstract video works I post to YT before the final installation. The subject: the US political system. Maybe one of you wishes to participate?
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What a mind numbingly boring story , I’m surprised anyone talked about it . So boring I nearly forgot what I was sending a comment about
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Look up the circle makers.
They hoaxed hundreds of scientists around the world over very technical designed crop circles created across the south of England around the late 90's.
I grew up with Will, one of the group. He was a graffiti artist from a young age, later an art student himself.
Some of the scientists still would not accept they were fooled, believing it had to be extraterrestrial lifeforms that carried out these enormous works of art, even after the video footage Will and the others filmed of themselves carrying out the circles at night was made public on a website called circlemakers.
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Easy to trick the masses into believing you did something bad… Easy to trick people into believing you didn’t do something bad… or trick them into believing you did something good…
I love that it’s entirely possible they really did take that vacation. And tricked the media into believing they staged the entire thing.
Despite inflation, £1,000 wasn't a fortune, even in 1998. At the time there were MP's filing dodgy expenses claims for way more than that on a regular basis and the press ignored it. I bet a bunch of the journalists who reported the story were probably fiddling their taxes for considerably more than that. The British press (especially the tabloids), have always loved kicking down without care for the facts. They've changed very little since this stunt other than having seen their influence wane.
Haha I love this, ex member of the press and I'm from Scarborough hahaha . You are all brilliant. Thanks for sharing
Great piece!
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The fbi repeated this hoax only using trump and Russia collusion during election. They just forgot to come out about it
me looking in the comments to see if this whole story was a fake lol
That's fcuking amazing, I love it😂
nice ending sentence Cice, words to live by, know what i mean
Brilliant
Great story. But if the point was to show up that 'journalists and the media swallow anything without fact-checking' then I think it would have been better that they hadn't gone to the lengths they did to produce such genuine-looking evidence? If they had just 'leaked' this 'story' with a few photos and let the media make up the rest in the way the often do, it would have made their point more powerfully. The newspapers that ran with it good juat say 'well there was voluminous evidence that it DID happen, flight tickets, photos that appeared to any reasonable person to be abroad' etc. Good on them though, great story, more people should be holding the media to account in such ways. Who watches the watchers…
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The Modern Day equivalent of this would be Fake Justin Bieber eating a burrito sideways by Yes Theory.
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Bitching about the media is too easy and a cop out and a way to excuse your own faults.
False news wouldn't be nearly as prevalent is the consumers of news actually prioritized accuracy.
There are plenty of media outlets who do great very in depth work and go to great lengths to verify everything….but the general public doesn't want to go through the effort of digesting a complex story.
People are too easily distracted to hear anything other than headlines, and even if they weren't, many are too stupid to even come close to understanding issues without a headline concluding for them.
If Fox News started accurately reporting stories with no commentary, no anchor telling people what to conclude, they'd lose most of their audience.
I don't blame the media for giving people what they want. I blame people for wanting it. Education and the general public's lack of overall intelligence is the reason fake news exists.