Whose dealership is DegreeInfo?

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by [email protected], Aug 29, 2003.

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  1. MarkIsrael@aol.com

    [email protected] New Member

    kf5k wrote:

    > The business [degreeinfo] gets paid money by the advertisers.
    > This by itself guarantees a bias towards the views of the
    > advertisers.


    Guarantees? Then how come the most frequently recommended schools (Excelsior, Thomas Edison) don't advertise here?

    Some of the credits we recommend (e.g., California community colleges) are so cheap that they could only undermine any commercial interest.

    Don't you think Chip could make more money by accepting ads from mills? If he's biased against mills, aren't his biases determining the advertisers rather than vice versa?

    > What we outsiders are really doing is discussing Fords at a
    > Chevrolet dealer's car lot, tolerated but not welcome.


    It's not a dealer's car lot, more like an auto convention. The different auto makers have some interests in common (they might conspire against public transportation), but they're also in competition with one another.

    Further, a car dealer is pure commercial, whereas some of us value academia for its relative insulation from the private sector.

    Gus Sainz wrote:

    > I would think it's more like discussing the trade in value of a
    > Yugo at the Lamborghini dealership and insisting that
    > because the U.S. Department of Transportation cleared both
    > of them for use on U.S. highways they are equivalent. :D


    Best laugh I've had in the last few days, and apt.

    Anyone who likes Lamborghinis will want to hear Phoebe Legere's song "It's me in a Lamborghini", the third song at http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/cds/206/206690.html (just a low-fi preview, unfortunately).
     
  2. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Click and Clack once determined that the Yugo was superior to the Lamborghini, in that it was much easier to push when it broke down -- and that the heated rear window kept your hands warm when you had to push it in cold weather.
     
  3. tcnixon

    tcnixon Active Member




    I'm not sure who these "outsiders" are that is referred to here, but I think the comparison doesn't work. I think perhaps comparing a Cadillac to a skateboard with one wheel missing is closer to the truth.



    Tom Nixon
     

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