Danny Taggart's Blogarama links to this story at the PhillyBurbs about fraud online degrees. He makes the good point that some news articles often don't seperate the real online university programs from the fake in their reporting.

This kind of reporting, which does not unambiguously differentiate between fraudsters and real, Accredited Online Universities issuing real diplomas hurts the latter tremendously. The efficacy of online instruction is debatable, but should be evaluated on its own merits, rather than instinctively associated with fraud.