Woman Tells Mike Rowe He "Sends Very Bad Message" With His Talk of Honest Work Ethic. Rowe Isn't...

You cannot make this stuff up. What ever happened to working for a living and depending on yourself? Oh yes, that was a pipedream ago.

From what I've seen of Mike Rowe in media, he seems to present good messages/themes. With regard to college education (which, even though I'm old, I just finished four 1/2 years ago):
1. Cry closets/safe-spaces/etc: When I went to college the first time (1989), they didn't have any of that, but they sure had a lot of anti-American, raving professors. None of that BS matters if you arrived already knowing it's BS. Parents need to inoculate their kids against indoctrination. The kids who believed the raving professors struck as...idiots.
2. Major and Degree matters. You don't need to go to an Ivy League school. You need a degree in a technical field. If, for example, you can code, and you have a degree from the Trailer Park Campus of Nowhere State University, you'll get the interview, you'll get the job. So will the graduate from Stanford who got a degree in Sociology, but your job will be at Big Pockets Software Inc, whereas the Ivy League graduate and their Sociology degree will be waiting your table at Capital Grille (if they're lucky).
3. Most jobs that "require" a college degree do so because a high school diploma no longer signifies that you can read, write, and do arithmetic. We're using 4-year degrees to show what a HS diploma used to count for.
4. Let's get back to that technical degree. If you want to build bridges or airplanes, you're gonna need that degree. if you can code, you don't necessarily need that degree - you just need to convince someone to give an interview.

Clickbait.
What the person actually said was that she felt his message of pro-trade schools was pushing people away from college degrees and that earning a degree is hard work as well.
Good Ole yellow journalism creating headlines out of molehills.