If any investor wishes to reap a long term investment benefits then looking beyond the headlines should be the priority of such an investor because if they keep looking at what is being said about Bitcoin all day then actually they can run into some random news that will destabilize their state of mind and insert fear in them which will lead to not fulfilling their investment objectives and goals.
I agree with you, the mainstream media is basically run by people who do not have faith in Bitcoin. The have this special way of amplifying the risk associated with investment in Bitcoin, it will really be difficult to be active listener of those headlines and still have confidence in holding Bitcoin for a long term. Well, since I started the DCA method, I'm no longer bothered by those news because I have done my own research and drew my conclusion about Bitcoin which have proven those experts wrong on several occasions.
Not that the people who run the mainstream media don't have faith in bitcoin. You have to understand that those Media houses are doing their business and the more they criticize bitcoin the more traffic they generate in their channel. This is a well calculated moves and they know what they are doing. You know most of the world population don't have bitcoin yet and many don't even believe in bitcoin and they are looking for every negative news about bitcoin so they can comment and share their negative views. Most of these negative news are sponsored buy some whales who wants newbies and weaker hands to sell off their bitcoins so they can buy cheaply. It is left for you as a hodler to quickly understand these tricks that they usually use the media houses to manipulate the market.