The mainstream media made the futures markets look like a monster, and they add fuel to the fire by pointing out that the tulip bulb mania ended when futures were introduced.
That's what the mainstream media does. This also happened when a 'research paper' by John Griffin about market manipulation was published. There were multiple articles reporting that bitcoin's price went down by 5% when the paper was published. Considering that bitcoin is known to have 5% variance, the connection made was stupid.