Seriously, look at http://searchyc.com/submissions/bitcoin?sort=by_date. There's a couple of people who will upvote everything with Bitcoin in the title, so every last one of these submissions has made it to the front page.
The fact that Gavin was asked (and answered) many of the questions HN-ers have had about escrow and wallet security shows your bias. If having the word "Bitcoin" in the title offends you somehow, please take the time to read what you're bashing so that you can critique it here.
Also you could make the same argument about Twitter/Apple/Facebook/Google/Android/Node.js before that there was RoR. Are those news(or even PR releases) more valuable than news about Bitcoin?