That is not necessarily a good thing, and bad news is not necessarily a bad thing, either.
Why is this not a good thing? It's positive reinforcement on mainstream media. Channel 4 news is watched by quite a lot of people in the UK and this was pretty positive and unbiased coverage.
It's the basics of the rules of power. Praise your enemy while you learn enough about them to destroy them. Know thy enemy. I won't even begin talking about the concept of 'killing them with praise'. But then again, you obviously think that all positive news coverage is a good thing. I urge you to look further into the matter.
Regardless of what the bank's motives are, it's not very often that a country's main news stations airs a puff piece on BTC. This is exactly what happened in China to spark interest last summer. It's one thing for one of us to preach the gospel of BTC to our colleagues but when they see if featured on a trusted tv or radio show they really internalize it and it becomes favorable in their minds.
