These Yahoo Fake News Articles About Online Schools Really Tick Me Off.

Agreed. However, while there are many out there that are quite foolish in their choices, does that excuse those who mislead them? Many individuals, even older adult students, who are looking for a bachelor's degree program obviously do not have the experience with choosing a school, or with what a degree will and will not do for them, so they are more susceptible to being misled to varying degrees. There is no excuse for an advertisement posing as an article, and being endorsed by Yahoo, no matter how naive the readers are. It should be identified for what it is and then I would have no complaint.

 

Degree Info ads do not pose as news articles. You can't tell me you think this is a legitimate news article. You have got to see that it was created as an advertising vehicle.

 

:rant: Doesn't anyone agree with me that this type of article is not a good thing? Am I just a grumpy moderator ranting at the world for no good reason? :rant:

 

I think you're being too idealistic, is all, relatively speaking.

There is what's legal, and what's moral/ethical, and the first thing they teach you about that is that they're related like a Venn diagram. Putting my "MBA blinders" on, it doesn't matter who gets hurt, if it's within the "rules." If they total up all the likely lawsuits and that's less than the likely profit, it gets a green light.

Of course, a good adjective for that viewpoint might be "sociopathic." If you can't stomach it, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Until we come up with a way of punishing immoral actors without the soul-crushing theocracy, however, there's not much to be done in the way of stopping them.

Tom