STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 28 March 2012

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43. Conclusion

The Washington Post Company's diversified portfolio of legal problems detailed in their 2011 annual report is astonishing, and should force the public to sit up and take notice. Furthermore, by failing to report on the extensive legal troubles at Kaplan, The Washington Post has also ceased being a real newspaper, preferring to conceal more than it reveals.....Kaplan University was once known as the cash cow of The Washington Post company. Now, it is little more than a legal albatross for its sugar daddy. Tragically, the Post Company's answer to Kaplan's declining domestic fortunes has been to export their educational product internationally. Kaplan International was one of the only divisions of the Washington Post Company to show growth in 2011, with a $100 million increase in revenues. This tells us that our struggle against Kaplan and the for-profit college industry is now international.