At this stage, though, I just don’t think there’s enough evidence to say there’s something insidious happening, regardless of what anyone thinks of Hennessey or his past exploits.

According to the Reddit posting, he says he wasn’t drunk when he posted it for starters (which Hennessey claims in the article you wrote). So I’m kinda wondering what sort of “reaching out” you did to this guy.

Journalism isn’t about simply parroting what a person tells you.

And that’s fine! I believe you when you say that you have no stake in the story. I just wish you would have tried to pull more information from Hennessey besides what was presented to us. Maybe you did and that’s just what he gave you to work with. From reading the article it seems you just gave him room to make a…

I have no stake in this one way or the other; I reached out to the OP, but got no response. I’m not commenting on the quality of the school here, really, just presenting what we know. For this story at least, it’s not really about what I think, but about if the OP’s accusations were true.

Yeah I think that was a bad bit of editorial on Torch’s part. We’re having serious problems in this country with the for-profit education industry, particularly with regards to its abuse of the GI Bill. If the complaints the Redditor is making are valid then there are issues that need to be looked at and addressed.

“Whether or not that is actually worth the added cost is up to each person to decide, of course.” doesn’t cut it when you’re taking GI Bill money.

Yeah I’m surprised Torch let Hennessey get away with that. It was a giant non-answer.

Hennessey’s responses seem to pretty much duck the meat of the accusations, namely that the school isn’t worth the money.