At this early stage every time bitcoin is mentioned, even if it is bad press, it is still good. Even Mt. Gox failing is good news in the long run. At some point the bitcoin community will say, "We haven't had another Mt. Gox in a long time because ______________ so bitcoin is safe now and the Wild West days are past." That is IF IF IF bitcoin can really step up and make sure that there aren't any more Mt. Gox scenerious. We need more multisig and 2nd party authentication.
It is even good if a totalitarian government or 10 ban bitcoin. That just means they are taking it seriously. As long as the free world accepts (and yes taxes) it, bitcoin becomes stronger.
At this early stage, Amazon saying it won't accept bitcoin is a huge win because it means bitcoin is big enough that they had to consider it. Someday, if customers demand and they lose business to Bitazon, they will be forced to accept it.
I agree but I think it should be recognized that BTC is in the early stages but also at a critical stage in some ways because alot of bad news is going to travel fast mainly because enough people are aware of BTC to the point that something to negative could be pretty devastating if enough trust/interest is lost IMO.