If i were these weak-handed people, i would rather not go on the news but look the chart to see the difference of pump and dump. They will figure it out soon once they know that there is a manipulation.
People don't consider themselves weak handed, and I'm pretty sure that they don't understand what the charts indicate other than the price itself either. They are easy targets for news outlets, because they click on anything.
People's problem here is that they overestimate themselves, and underestimate the market. If the price isn't going up, they claim that the market is being manipulated by institutions and whatnot.
I have been trying to figure out what the manipulation is that people refer to, but haven't seen anything actually indicating that. Most of the massive dumps aren't whale dumps, but stop losses triggering each other....