Your comment is a broader criticism of communication media. I don't disagree but my comment was meant specifically about Bitcoin itself and stands outside the media in which it is discussed. Even highly informed developers, not swept up in shallow currents on social media, have failed the test of character that Bitcoin poses. Three high profile (developer) examples would be Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn and Jeff Garzik.

This is why I think the model of anonymous engagement with Bitcoin, set by Satoshi, is a very good one to follow. It significantly weakens the ego attachment to one's engagement with Bitcoin as you are not engaging as a person with a real life identity (which you naturally want to protect and enhance) but simply as an anonymous disenbodied voice whose 'value' can only be judged by others in what it says and has said. (And also, in the case of developers, in the code it has written and contributed.)

Ego engagement with Bitcoin can fall into many traps, including thinking one is the enlightened 'saviour' of Bitcoin, an example of which I think we are seeing play out currently.

ps I'm aware of the somewhat pompous tone of this comment and my preceding one. I struggled to make my responses without sounding like I thought I was wiser than others. Maybe that says something about my own ego attachment.