The whole point about bitcoin is it is virtual. I guess at most a QR code is just not sexy enough.
BTW this is how news is manipulated about what to cover. If you want a lot of coverage for your product, make a lot of media available, photos, video, etc. If you have bad news, political, judicial, etc. makes no audio, video, or photos available by law or otherwise and boom, little to no coverage. Because of "dog vs squirrel" attention span.
Now let's look at this tidbit they repeat in every bitcoin story:
James Howells lost about £4.6m when he threw away his hard drive, forgetting that he had bitcoins stored on it.
This is bbc news, not fox news. I expect better. Did the BBC confirm how many bitcoins were on his hard drive? Did someone look at the blockchain or some other detail? I think not. So I say he lost nothing until proven otherwise.