When had media swayed public opinion? Well, there was a lot of instances but a majority of the ones that were coming to mind was related to muggle publications he'd read after his Dad was done with them. But this was History of Magic so he was trying to dig deeper and remember something.

Ah. He raised his hand and waited for his turn to speak, "When Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban initially, the Daily Prophet had pretty much used him as a scapegoat for everything that went wrong, even without concrete evidence. I would assume it was because it was easier to group all the escapees and give them a ringleader so it seemed like only one danger as opposed to many." But they'd painted him so poorly he probably would have never had a way to make it in society again after the Daily Prophet's smear campaigns.

That was pretty sad when one ruminated on it.