I mean, the NY Times will never run an article where the thesis is “Millennials are working hard at similar jobs as boomers and slowly improving their financial stability”, even if they found it was representative of the data.

Because that won’t get clicks and sell ads.

So instead, you find some weird edge case, talk to a few people to get their take, filter out the common sense viewpoints then call it “a new trend”.

People furiously tweet it, spend a couple days talking about it and NYT gets a bunch of clicks and some ad revenue to do it all over again.