'World News' Laments Rising Tuition, Ignores Causes  Complaining
about rising costs, but ignoring the root of the problem is a
common media mistake. And it is one ABC “World News Sunday,”
made on Aug. 23 while discussing rising costs of a college
education.  “College students all over the country are heading
back to campus this week and for many of them their first stop
is going to be the financial aid office,” “World News” anchor
Dan Harris said. “In this bleak economy, there are a lot of
families that cannot afford tuition and now are scrambling for
last minute help.”  ABC correspondent Rachel Martin continued
and said there had been a spike in applications for financial
assistance.  “Colleges and universities around the country are
seeing record numbers of financial aid applications and
thousands of last minute appeals,” Martin said. “So now schools
are scrambling to meet that demand.”  Certainly some students
are struggling in the economic downturn the reason college
tuition rates have spiraled higher and