Originally Posted by
mnscout
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?
Anecdotal evidence. During how much time of the duration of the Mint deal was there a major article running on it? Almost none. Yet during some of that very little period of time, the deal got killed. That's either a very big coincidence, or it's not a coincidence at all.