Now, if there's someone out there saying she doesn't plan to check out "Kong" simply because Drudge was erroneously hinting it was dead-on-arrival, it's quite possible that person never seriously intended to see the movie in the first place.
I recall at the start of the war in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein the MSM erroneously trumpeting that the war was a dead-on-arrival quagmire. Despite embedded reporters witnessing a hugely successful victory to oust Saddam. Did the reporters seriously intend to see the war in the first place?
I recall toward the end of Kerry's 04 campaign a political analyst said the MSM reporting positive for Kerry vs negative against Bush gave Kerry ten points at the Presidential election.
That's the large Main Stream Media influence on an important matter.
The lone Drudge Report with one headline couldn't effect a trivial matter as a movie by even 1 percent.
For the rest of his life, Matt Drudge will be hated by the left for breaking the Lewinsky story. The media was desperate to figure out a way to protect BJ, they knew that they would have to report it sooner or later but they were looking for a way to downplay it. Then Drudge came along and stole their thunder and let everyone know that the media was trying to bury the story of the century.