It is not just the independent. The Media is against the cryptocurrency in general. With that being said, they always struggle to take it down and they are doing the impossible to change the public's opinion concerning it. And that is the one of the reasons why the bitcoin price has dropped. In my opinion, they will not be capable of wining because bitcoin is not alone. I really hope they stop with their mess and try to post something useful in the future.
The media isn't against crypto and the media isn't the reason the price has dropped.
The media is nothing more than a sentiment surfer. If the market is bearish they become equally as bearish. If the market is bullish, they become equally as bullish. They have to do this in order to remain relevant.
They know how markets work. During bear markets good news has no impact and for that reason they reduce good news articles as much as possible, unless the good news is too big to not publish.
Last year during the bull run the media was extremely bullish, and even so bullish that it nearly annoyed me as Bitcoiner. People just need to accept that we're dealing with businesses and not anti crypto outlets.
How exactly the mainstream media were bullish last year? I remember CNBC were covering crypto a lot, invited Bitcoin supporters and shilled for altcoins, but I think that's it, other news outlets were more like "Bitcoin reached X, is this the top of the bubble?". They were throwing doubts when BTC reached 1k, 2k, 6k, 8k, then they were covering futures, ATH and the crash. And of course they gave publicity to Jamie Dimon who attacked Bitcoin multiple times last year.