. >> frontline correspondent ac thompson of propublica, together with npr, investigates "the child cases." >> just because there were bruises doesn't mean that the child was ever hit. >> and raises serious questions about the state of pediatric forensics. >> there are people out there that have been wrongly convicted. >> and in our second story tonight... >> you're going to get a free education. >> ...are some for-profit colleges exploiting a generous new gi bill? >> there's so much money at stake that they have hired substantial numbers of recruiters to go after these vets. >> these people are putting their lives on the line. they shouldn't be treated like this. >> these two stories on this special edition of frontline. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. and by reva & david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian

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i talked about the local ones, but there's national ones like propublica.y saw an insufficient in reporting at the local level, so they created something, and within the first year they won the pulitzer prize. there is not an inherent gap between print or web, good journalism can be done in any form. i really want to pause for a second on something i was unaware of which is state public affairs networks. these are basically c-spans on a state level. as spending by states has gone up, the number of state house reporters has gone down. there's 23 states with state c-spans and they vary in depth and quality, but they show the legislative hearings, the floor, and they do candidate debates and issue forums and things frankly that the local tv news would do for of, that some of the states are doing it. in only four cases are the states funded by the cable operateors in the way the cable industry funds c-span. in a quite a number of cases, they are funded by the state, which works okay, but i don't think it's the best model in the world to have the state funding t