If the news about crypto comes from a respective company or institution these will be a big impact on the market because it could attract weak holders to dump their coins that could lead the market to go down and also it can be the barrier for these technology to grow if they always report negativity about cryptocurrency.
Agreed, it will affect the market for sure, speculations about the crypto currency and the most said the death of crypto and bitcoin, without analyzing the situations is looking too dumb for me, it is only the beginning of the year and they just spreading fake news everywhere.