Flatiron School settles for operating without license, employment/salary claims

Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em... by WoodenChair on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:41PM (#15496502)

I don't know why you're being downvoted. The epitome of so-called "fake news" is a newspaper reprinting stats a private corporation provides it in a matter-of-fact tone as the Times did here.

Instead of writing, "More than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." The Times should've written "Flatiron claims more than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." Those two words Flatiron claims are the difference between reporting and restating as fact.

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Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em... by andrestan on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:15PM (#15496632)

In fairness to the Times I wouldn't call this fake news; just slightly sloppy reporting. Fake news implies that it's deliberately misleading which this doesn't appear to be. They are simply repeating claims.

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Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em... by topgunsarg on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:40AM (#15499500)

Flatiron was going around parading themselves as the only coding school to get their job statistics audited by a third party, so I don't necessarily blame the NYT for believing their claims.

Ironic that the only audited school is now the one having issues with misleading statistics.

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Re:Flatiron School settles for operating without license, em... by amcooper on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:35PM (#15501710)

We have become inured to the Times's anti-journalistic practice of "simply repeating claims" for years now, but it's still a problem worth pointing out.

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