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http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/04/30/media-fails-attempt-destroy-bitcoin-favor-blockchain/

I am curious why the reports on bitcoin on television are somehow making bitcoin bad. Somehow many people are thinking that bitcoin is a criminals money. And while reading this article it just make sense that media has made attempts to destroy bitcoin in favor of blockchain. Is someone behind this bad publicity to bitcoins. But at least bitcoin remain strong.

Media will always try to spread the negativity towards common people in such an extent that they will eventually create a bad taste towards certain innovation or ideas.
In this case they always are trying to influence common people to create hate towards Bitcoin as it was used by some criminals and drug dealers.

This kind of blind bandwagon is making me hate the media.
They are always trying to gain traction to their news by spreading negative messages since people gets more attracted towards negativity as a whole.

Nearly every new technology was first used by criminals its just the way things are..... ::)

Media gets no views for spreading good news about bitcoin. If they were to start explaining the advantages of bitcoins in the newspaper, not a lot of people would read it. But the moment the newspaper talks about a drug bust involving bitcoin or something similar, then a lot of people get interested in reading up about it. So they just target viewers with news that interests them, and unfortunately its the bad news which does.

Lazy reporters need a way to come up with some headlines that will shock people.
"Hey did you know your kids are using computer money to buy drugs on the internet?!?!?!"
That's why we need to work hard to educate people about cryptocurrency and blockchain.

you seriously need to stop googling for bitcoin news and posting anything you find on here. this is an old article by the way from 3 months ago.

besides there has always been some kind of negative news about bitcoin in the media. many times it is like that becasue they are looking for something hot to post as news and many times it is because they are against bitcoin.

Governments all over the world are going to be pushing the anti-cash agenda soon, this means that people will search for alternatives, and Bitcoin is the only alternative for freedom once physical cash is removed. They know it, which is why they will keep attacking Bitcoin, but we will win.

Most people don't care about freedom with their cash.. They only care about ease of use and security through governments backing part of your savings when something bad happens.

At the moment any mention of bitcoin in the mainstream news is good imo. More people need to be aware of it first, later they can then consider using it. More and more of my friends are asking me how to get into bitcoin, so I guess the tides are slowly turning.

I think you are wrong, the media is a neutral party. Because I think the media also spread the word about the benefits bitcoin. I also know and use bitcoin because of acquiring of the media. Just imagine if without the media, maybe people in the world do not know bitcoin. LOL

[IMO] they do that for dropping the price, and after the price drop they will buy Bitcoin as much as they can. And then they will make a good news about Bitcoin til people come back again to use Bitcoin, and then they sell their Bitcoin to have a profit.

The media knows too well that bad news sells better than good news. We can't expect them to be all praises to bitcoin if they themselves are not that familiar with it. We know that media can really be big influencers when it comes to our decision making but we also can't expect them to report what they hardly know about.

Thats normal in report on bitcoin because almost all of illegal buyer, user  use this bitcoin in sending their payment to the seller of drugs or illegal Guns. But news didnt report about bitcoin's advantages? Yup because only few people wants to hear it, and some people watching this will feel boring. And for me, media dont want to destroy bitcoin because they just reporting what happening in the world. Even if they want to destroy it they cant.

There is hardly any mention of bitcoin in the UK in mainstream news channels, and if there is its usually negative, even the positive stories seem to have a negative connotation to them. The negativity doesn't seem to add fluctuations to the price so much now, but I'm sure that it puts people off. I mentioned to a friend that I was investing in BTC and his response was 'Isn't that only used by criminals', we could do with some more positivism from the media.

The media (television channels and newspapers) are under the control of governments and as the governments do not want bitcoin (because they are of the view that it is easy to use for criminals) so they use these media source for destroying this technology.

there is nothing alarming about this bad publicity about bitcoin in the media, this is only alarming to you because it is apparently the first time you listen to the media and the news. they say whatever they like and whatever they think is attractive and it doesn't matter if it is true or not.

or did you forget how they announced craig wrigt as satoshi without asking for any proof?

What you are telling is a long time ago , but in today Media is the first who are creating the small thing as a big bubble. They just wanted their channel to get high TRP so that they can get more revenue through advertisement. In my view today media are the one big threat to the public as most of the times they just spread the rumors with getting full detail about the actual news.

Yes media and news just do anything to attract people towards their news.Its no big deal,there is a history to every good thing we also see some bad publicity about this.

For the moment there is no worrying about the rush of publicity about bitcoin to the media . This may only concern for you because
it seems that you hear first is from the media and the news . ( Keep in mind ) they say what they like and whatever they find interesting
regardless of whether it is right or wrong

That is one good trading strategy! :D ;D

The media is a sly fox...

look at the media coverage say three years ago compared to now.

maybe one piece in five is a hatchet job and it's reversed compared to back then.

It's pretty rare to come across something totally uninformed these days.

I hate to see negative reporting like this, but we do here positive new sometimes as well. I have heard of charities and churches that accept bitcoin donations. This shows that there are beneficial uses for bitcoin. And that is in addition to the main uses which are a method of payment, method of sending money, and store of value.

I dont remember some good publicity around bitcoin till the day, besides they had visited some big farm in the USA and showing the value of 1000 dollars or something near it, all news around bitcoin are made to try to kill or hide it since the begining, till the moment they had fail, bitcoin is getting bigger and stronger, soo they need to be more creative and even with that they cant destroy or stop bitcoin.

yeah but also there are peoples who are against bitcoin and want bitcoin to vanish from this world as by doing the negative publicity of bitcoin !
I know the charities are being more profited by bitcoin donation as due to its liqudity and price volatile and they are supporting it but i think this may be politicians behind in such issues !!

Its not surprising its always the media that destroys everything by publicizing the different thing.  When people the hear the country Iraq, the first thing that comes in their mind is war when it fact the country is very much peaceful during Saddam's time. Same thing with Libya.

I hate to say it this way but it is just like what is happening with Donald Trump in the US election right now. They are trying to be as negative about him as possible basically all of the time on every sort of media possible, and it has been easing up recently with the convention and everything but it's still just being negative about someone they don't like. This is the same for Bitcoin; they don't like it and thus they're going to paint it as negatively as possible at every turn. Eventually they'll run out of ammo to attack it with and have to revert to their most basic attacks, and that's when you'll know Bitcoin has beat them.

in the article they're right when they've said "Blockchain is a hot term" and that everyones focused on it, rather than Bitcoin. It's all because once the media gets to be aware that Bitcoins are used on the darknet by illegal drug markets and for other unusual activities, they try to relate those as a bad omen to Bitcoin itself. Most of the power lies in Big banks and Financial institutions and they play a major role in polluting the reputation of something that a minority of the public accepts cause it instills freedom for people from monitoring. These big institutions inturn tend to spill the same to the media to create a "Bad" hype about Bitcoins, and then the chain follows from one media channel to another.

If you are with the government you will understand. Something that os not in their control should be stopped and with the help of media it can be done.

That is also true so they are treating Bitcoin as a threat to their financial status. We will soon see how far can they go to stop cryptocurrency in the coming years.
Not sure if its possible to control github but if it is they might as well take that, domain registrars and hosting companies which is going to be scary.

ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED!!!

OK, Illuminati may even not exist (I don't think so), but it's true there are dozens of secret societies around the world, big ones with really wide influence and can control many powerful things like the media easily like a piece of cake. Should they drive there attention toward bitcoin and try to manipulate it? Yes, because it's profitable.

Basically your right, most of the media news target negative news as these are much more catchy to their audience, so I dont see any reason to believe media wants Bitcoin to fail, they just happily publish any negative news, Bitcoin included.

You can see in news how big inflation have venezuelan people with their fiat currency as well, over 1000% yearly so basicaly using it is pointless, and any fiat currency can easily end in similar trend. So media news do not just bash Bitcoin, they like to report about any negative news that come up, so nothing to worry about.

i think that is not for the first time. we are experiencing such cases for so many time. every time bitcoin succeeded and the false reporter fails in their aim. i can hope that this time also bitcoin will become succeeded.

Media do not tell the truth. They just want to make sensational story/news and attract people to read commercial ads.

I just watched the 3rd episode of the second season of Mr. Robot and there was this talk about Bitcoin and cold wallets and all the illegal vibe associated with the Bitcoin technology that even the mainstream media is painting the picture that mainly hackers and computers geeks are vested in this digital currency. Maybe after watching the show a lot of people will check out this Bitcoin thing and become Bitcoiners themselves who knows.

I don't know about the criminals but I do think that some group of people just want to highlight the bad aspects of bitcoins in the eye of common people. it may be the group of corporations that doesn't want bitcoins to be widely used.

Yeah that's the function of the media, I think it was a regular thing if they wanted to get a view that many more they get the money and the increasingly popular. Because the media can not live without operational money :)
And therefore I think the media is one of the media neutral party, because they spread the word that is actual and factual.

It is a common thing for media, they need the sensational news to lift their reputation and they want to make it as controversial as possible, when bitcoin is used for wrong reason the media will keep on shouting and reporting, but they not doing anything when bitcoin is used for good purpose, some organization has started accepted bitcoin as donation, but media never bring up the news

Well after I read your post the thing that I will lay down on the table are two things. First is probably yes and the second is probably no. Probably yes, since reports are also bias and media can be paid and report news with bias due to personal interest. Second is probably no, since media are also made up of people such as there are honest and bad people there are also good publications to bitcoin from media.

i don't know why you used the word alarming, maybe you don't know the meaning of it. but it is normal and the article you shared is also old article with nothing interesting in it.

there has always been a lot of bad media, a lot of FUD, and many other bad things about bitcoin. and people usually demonize what they don't understand and don't use their brain to think about if it is true or not.

That kind of reports are normal when it comes to bitcoin. Many thinks that bitcoin is criminal money because of it's association with darknet, and as a currency in darknet that's why many associates bitcoin as illegal money but the media takes advantages of it and get bitcoin's image become more bad because of it.

Sometimes people reject something they don't understand and when you  don't understand something it makes you afraid of it.
But other times people are just jealous honestly because they can't have a success on something like here  bitcoin so they try to stop others from being successful.

This is some serious talk. We all know that social media is being used as a means of advertisement for investment scam, ponzi scams and other scam related bullshit. They can do it there for it is a free advertisement and no one is stopping them there. No moderators means freedom for them to steal from people.

It's not news anymore  if bad publicity to bitcoin  happens in social media.  The system of people interest works that way.  If someone publish a good news, little to  nothing will have an interest to it.  But if someone publish a  bad incident mostly  the whole world will take notice.  So as to bait more people to view or get interest  in their article, they tend to pick bad thing that happen and sadly Bitcoin and bad news attached with it is a great news piece for them.

Those are into bitcoins are those people who are matured already and bad publicity in media will not make a big impact on how they trust bitcoin. Real bitcoin believers does not believe in FUD and our faith will not be easily disturbed without any valid proof of a certain claim that would affect the market of bitcoin in a negative way.

Im now used to any news to do with bitcoin being bad news, its  very rare that i read anything in the media with a positive spin on bitcoin. The only time i really notice a positive spin on thinghs is when it goes on to speak about the blockchain and not specifically bitcoin. for whatever reason the blockchain seems to have steered clear of most of the negativity.

OP when you think this is bad publicity I recommend to check articles written by the big newspapers and magazines around the world 2-3 years ago!
Compared to that Bitcoin is doing really good at the moment and gets a lot of neutral and positive news as well.
And what do you think had been written about electricity, the car, the internet first?? ;)
Don't worry too much.Even negative press can be good press.

I think it's actually a good thing that some people on social media are giving bitcoins a bad name. If the viewer is dumb enough to believe everything that he could read on his phone, then he's stupid enough to be not in this industry. We don't need those type of people.

Media has given a lot of good things a bad name so this one isn't surprising at all.

Yeah, i agree with you. because I think the media have an important role and parties neutral as I mentioned earlier.
Haha true, several times I read the news about the shortage of bitcoin. But it turned create bitcoin prices rise :) Good or bad news depends we react. Just my opinion

we should not believe media always , now days a media news are not at all true. media wants their popularity  to grow ,so they will be publishing the new as their wish. it is not only with bitcoin ,any new on real life media does not show truth most of the times, it depends on the person to believe.

Media usually do bad publicity because bad news always caught the mind of the reader, that is how they can attract people to view their pages or listen to their news, therefore we should not rely on media alone and in order for us to verify the media always check in in the forum for accurate information.

Some media are manipulated by the government and you know that "some" government in any specific country dont want Bitcoin, they don't get it that we have to advance as a human and here it goes were using digital currency they just want to stick to fiats and don't want innovation.

That is one of the points that I wanted to express in this post. That there are movements behind in which we do not know that uses media as a strategy to subtly attack bitcoins by destroying its image in public.

If there are some movements behind the black propaganda or bad publicity what are their motives then. Their motives and who are they is the big issue.

Who they are is simple. Whoever has a stake in btc not suceeding and has resources to push propaganda via the media or social media. So banks,  payment processors like visa,  maybe western union and moneygram,  maybe paypal. Maybe a giant lobby comprised of some or all of those.

The online newspapers like to create sensational news about Bitcoin which is not necessarily true in the slightest in order to pull more readers to the sites and earn more from the ad placements. I think we need to take everything we read online nowadays with a big grain of salt because we are dealing with bad reporters and greedy news agencies and all this results in badly misinterpreted breaking news that only serves to create more confusion in the public.

Yeah journalist love to sensationalized to the point of exageration.  But the news in fact has some truth to it not in bitcoin but in people who are doing bad things like money laundering, child pornography, drug cartel.  So when people read this stuff, they think bitcoin is the culprit in this which is really not true.  And government should implement responsible journalism so those who exaggerate and coz more harm than good and found out to be biased should be arrested.

well yeah, bitcoins usually have a lot of hhate on the media, to be honest a lot of people are made to think that bitcoins are bad so they avoid using their bitcoins

I think if that bad news in social media about bitcoin will have an impact to people, it 's just a little. If a person doesn't know or doesn't even have any idea of what bitcoin is, he won't be interested with that news. Why should he read the article in the first place? Right? And of course someone who knew about bitcoin won't believe it in any way, since he knew the truth. I think there will always be people who will defend bitcoin from those bad news and let others know what really it is.

yeah, these bad news are getting old these days. and the article is also old showing that OP may have some other purpose for sharing it because it is for some months ago before the rise.

besides if people are making their decisions based on the crappy news they read on a news site they better stay out of bitcoin.

Media is mostly highlighting the negative aspects of the bitcoins. It sound like the bitcoin is criminal currency.
I guess this because the people in power doesn't want people to use bitcoins !!!

This is nothing new in Bitcoin & not alarming, IMO.

If you look at the news about developing private blockchains, however, you'll find that over $1 Billion has been invested in the technology & that even presidential candidate H. Clinton publicly advocated for blockchain technology this year.

That is the problem. How can we encourage them with saying just stay out of it. It needs to be corrected. There are people who dont know a thing about bitcoin and didnt even researched it because of bad advertisement. There should be a goal to make them understand and not be selfish to tell them just stay out of it. We dont want it to be like a plague.

I agree! 
I think we all heard a lot of sensational "news" about BTC by writers who clearly did not understand it, especially in the earlier years.
Bitcoin topics are perfect for practicing our critical thinking skills, especially if our minds are open.

Really? because I think media is also commonly publish good news and it also attracts a lot of people. Plus more because media compete with other media, I think the news is the news accurately displayed. Compared forums usually only issues that do not necessarily occur.

Good point!

Like everything else in life, including Bitcoin, you can focus on positive stories or on negative ones.

It really is a choice.

The "bad" stories can be excellent warnings too.

They are all the same, in media there are also publishers that are not telling the real score of the news and there are also what we called shit posters. I think it should come up unto us and we should more intelligent enough to evaluate what is the truth behind.

The mass media always reports more on negative stories and will hardly rally behind good policies or bitcoin doing good in the world at large. This is the nature of disseminating news in our world today. Also the corporate media has fiat dollars behind it so will not back this disruptive technology as it should do in these trying economic times.