The manipulation of, or the manipulation by, the press can be traced back a long time.
Here is a good example of how an impression can be formed just by where an interview is filmed. To the uninitiated it may be taken that TCT owns a spitfire and flies a Provost. The back-drop may have been coincidental, it may have been deliberate. Why not conduct the full interview in front of her own aircraft? - It was there and gets a mention and very short screen presence later.
2:55 onwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8XZYJIZ4U