And very-strange-colour-lady wasn't even a traveller...
I don't think it was all propaganda though, even though some of it was sympathetic. As has been said upthread, they were given enough rope to hang themselves, even without all the other stuff you mention.
For example, there was plenty of scope for the watcher to think 'and how did he pay to hire that £250,000 monster truck and pay for the 14-stone wedding dress/fairytale carriage, hmm?' And then there was the little kid's dress giving her sores etc...and the boys thinking it's perfectly okay to grab girls they want to kiss etc (mind you, some men in clubs think that's okay, too). Yes, they didn't pass comment on it, but they didn't need to.