I think these news would have been all slaves, as they would have earned very well. Bitcoin is completely decentralized. Bitcoin in a decentralized manner is not interesting for governments and their friendly businessmen, but Blockchain technology. Becoming a mainstream is not an easy task, you need cooperation with the media, major investors, corporations, governments, the mafia. Bitcoin is a completely independent coin, which causes anger in many people.
Yes, only few people can manipulate it and this is the reason why so many hate it, but also many are now into bitcoin now and this is good as it will start to increase bitcoin price.
Call me old fashioned but my values dictate that i would really love to get rid of the manipulation conspiracy within the market. But anyways, let's leave that topic for another thread.
I am just glad that you realized that people's interest will be the driving factor of price increase rather than the usual limited supply (thus, the call to hodl became so popular). But i do believe that utilization will help more to valuate bitcoin rather than making the supply less. Thus, i am with many out there who are wishing for massive global adoption to take place the soonest possible.
Bitcoin going mainstream would simply mean increased demand, better value and good flow of that finite supply.