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Washington Post abuses students
Published: 24 December, 2010, 03:36
TAGS: Politics, Corruption, USA
According to investigative journalists at the Huffington Post, the Washington Post’s subsidiary Kaplan Higher Education has tarnished the Post’s image forever by raking in money from powerless students and those desperate for a higher education.
The Washington Post is used to exposing scandals, from Watergate to the Pentagon papers and most recently the revelation of secret CIA operated prisons in Easter Europe. Of course the Huffington Post has discovered a few scandals of its own and its latest discovery is that the Washington Post itself is embroiled in scandal.
According to investigative journalists at the Huffington Post, its subsidiary Kaplan Higher Education has tarnished the Post’s image forever by raking in money from powerless students and those desperate for a higher education.
Huffington Post reporter Peter Goodman says, “The Washington Post newspaper has become a smaller part of what has become a media conglomerate. The largest source of profits for the Washington Post Company is Kaplan Higher Education, which is a whole bunch of courses with traditional campuses offering college degrees. There are a lot of unscrupulous practices and 80-90% of the revenue comes from federal aid leaving students with a ton of debt!”
Apparently, management has employed deceptively aggressive marketing practices to recruit students, while enrolling many in classes without their knowledge which enables the company to pocket a larger slice of the federal financial dollars that comprise upwards of 85 percent of their tuition revenues.
Peter Goodman adds, “The Washington Post Companies argument is that if you have this draconian system that is going to eliminate a source of higher education for lower income students. They take on more low income students and that would be unfair.” However, Goodman points out that: “Let’s remember that is a very similar argument that the predatory mortgage operations had.”
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In reading your article, I noted that you quoted the Huffington Post. In the quotes were such metrics like "a lot of" and "a ton of". The Huffington Post has never been known for being Centrist in their reporting. I always find it refreshing when a reporting entity, like RT, actually reports the news instead of regurgitating what someone else has written. You guys are spot-on when you do your own work, but when you follow some other news entity (perhaps because they are bashing certain powers that be), you are prone to be wrong.
This is not a reporter writing an article, but a commentator writing an editorial. A scrupulous reporter will use calculable metrics and name sources for numbers. I was more than a bit surprised to read this kind of sensationalism from RT.