The NYT has written about taxi medallions for many years. The contrast in their writing on them is pretty striking: https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/

The NYT has written about taxi medallions for many years. The contrast in their writing on them is pretty striking: https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/2-taxi-medallions-sell-for-1-million-each/ https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/2-taxi-medalli... I had more boosterism bookmarked back in the day but lost it. This is a special case of Michael Crighton’s amnesia, where even the NYT forgets how incompetent the NYT was at getting this story right.