Originally Posted by
jamesteroh
A person from NPR contacted ppeople on the mint thread (myself included) wanting to interview them for a story. I didn't respond but a couple people wanted a couple minutes of fame. A lady bragged about all the coins she ordered from the mint and all the miles she was getting and a day or two after the story ran the program ceased. If all those media stories wouldn't have been published the mint deal would have lasted a lot longer.
Nope, can't be that. Because aside of NPR, I also remember the articles in Forbes, LAT, Money Magazine, not even mentioning the WSJ article conspicuously called
"Miles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint" that was written
in 2009! Yet, the festivities continued unabated for another two years after that. Why didn't that article kill Mint in 2009?
Forgive me, but blaming bloggers with their tiny number of followers compared to those national publications, is beyond ridiculous. The government killed the deal because the Mint was bleeding money, and someone somewhere had to stop it at some point. Would've happened with or without bloggers and NPR.