To date, nary a Bitcoin-theme periodical has penned an exposé exposing that KnC did not indeed pay TBF $100K USD via BTC for their Platinum Membership.
Likewise, nary a Bitcoin-theme periodical has penned an exposé exposing HashTrade for not REALLY paying BFL that infamous million dollars via BitPay for a shitload of Monarchs in October, 2013. Is it because HashTrade and its sister companies, LiquidBits, NimbusMining, and Nitsolus, all under the auspices of Coinware, are all controlled by none other than the Jacobson brothers, Jean-Marc and Remy, who in turn control respectively the Canadian and Miami Bitcoin Embassies?
What gives, you news guys?
~Bruno Kucinskas
I suppose it is just a rhetorical question, but anyway: the Bitcoin sites are supported by Bitcoin enterprises, not by individual miners, traders, and investors. Running an exposé on one company could result in a dozen others like them to take their ads and press releases elsewhere.
You don't expect to see articles in traditional media that say bad things about products that are (or may be) advertised there. When that happens, the author or magazine may be tacitly blackmailing the company, "you give us {a free sample|your ads} or we will continue to badmouth you".
EDIT: Many years ago, famous science fiction author used to run a hardware/software review column in the Datamation magazine, where he almost boasted of doing that. In one issue he would write "I tried the new IBM FooBar PC, it was junk". In the next issue, "The folks from IBM gave me a Foobar PC as a free sample, and I found that it is actually wonderful."