How Will Fox Respond To Renewed Efforts To Improve Veterans’ Access To Education?
With Mitt Romney scheduled to visit a for-profit college in North Carolina on August 12, will Fox News finally note the problem of for-profit colleges using deceptive practices to target veterans? In April, President Obama signed an executive order aimed at helping protect veterans from the actions of some for-profit colleges. Fox News responded by calling the order “a political stunt” and derided it as a “political gimmick.” It further attacked Obama by claiming that the order was an “insult to the troops.” By contrast, veterans groups, who have “long felt that student veterans need to have the tools to succeed when it comes to their education,” greeted Obama’s actions with praise