These people make money from sensation, so it is just natural for them to nitpick news that would grab people's attention. Bitcoin got a lot of attention in mainstream media, when the price hit record high prices too, because it was news worthy. Most of the journalist know very little about Bitcoin, so they just react, when something big happens and then they back this up with 5 minutes of research via Google.
A lot of the media companies are shills for fiat slaves, so pushing Bitcoin down, would fit their agenda. < selective reporting >
Chinese miners and their control and manipulation of the prices is becoming fairly obvious, during the big plunge at the end of 2013
this site literally became a mouth piece of the Chinese communist army saying BITCOIN IS ILLEGAL IN CHINA, while at the same time
Silicon valley seems to exert a similiar type of pressure in different ways, hacking, control of forums and programmers, while yer in the
background the money printers are in control of everything and pulling them all like parrots on a string,
heres the wayback machine the Dec25th wont open but I was looking for a date around about the 20th this one is the 8th Dec 2013
http://web.archive.org/web/20131206042350/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0