Naah, they only care about profit and market share, an article that speak about bubbles and hacks attract moar readers than a normal one 

It's true; people like sensationalism. Find a friend, start talking about how great bitcoin is and how it will solve the world's problems - they'll yawn and be like "... ok. ANYWAYS."

But give them a news article about how thousands of people are being scammed into making 1000+ percent profits and retiring early, and how the ground-breaking alternative to fiat currencies is a "bubble," and how you can "hack bitcoinz" - and they'll be all over it.

+1

I would be much more worried if all  press was pro bitcoin.

It feels to me like it's a scramble amongst them to be the ones who were "right" and predicted the popping of the bubble. They like to write the news before it happens, if they can. And since the last time the price rose like this it was a bubble and popped, they blindly assume everything will happen exactly as before. One data point is enough for them!

And now, if the value decreases at any point in the future they can feel vindicated too.

The whole attitude of the press towards anything new is so terribly similar to bullying and other mob behaviours. The hatred of things or people that are different.

They love scare mongering and have been making money doing that for years. A lot of them probably have a few coins tucked away.

You can't blame them for suggesting it's a bubble, many people within the Bitcoin share their view that this is a speculative bubble.

There is an ebb and flow within the media. Once a story comes out, if there is positive attention paid to something, the opposite will be true within days. Same if something negative comes out, a few days later there will be articles about the other side of the story. Ever followed politics?

For every story the media gets two stories out of it this way.

I've been watching for news about the massive leak of financial data.  Very few mainstream US media outfits have much about it.  It's just not very interesting in the US somehow.  Gee...I wonder why

When I pay attention to mainstream media these day it is almost always just to see what media covers what news rather than to actually read the content.

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to GW Bush for stealing the election of 2000.  That really opened my eyes to how the mainstream media works in the US.  My ceasing paying attention to the mainstream media coincides with my success in various other efforts which is almost certainly in part due to chance, but also to freeing my mind from contamination.

I really hope that bad press will slow down bitcoin pricing a little bit.