In this movie, the negative press forces the president to change his stance. If this were happening today, half the papers wouldn't report on it and the government would just claim that it was a matter of national security and ignore the rest.
Back then the government actually cared what the public thought. Now they don't.
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Well, also back then, there was the idea that women were 'delicate' and needed 'protection'. So reports of them being abused in prison DID raise concern---irrespective of what they were lobbying any elected official for.
Now, pregnant innmates are shackled while they are giving birth and not even given adequate prenatal care, if anything at all. And this is not even addressed. We believe that women can 'handle' these conditions.
Society has moved from one extreme of overprotecting women specifically because of their gender to not giving them any accommodaton because of the gender.
Some of this kind of is happening today. Most of the middle east nations treat women even worse then we did back before they could vote. Those Taliban run hellhole nations make women wear burqas, force them into marriages, will not let them be out of the house without a husband or male relative escorting them etc.
IT is DISGUSTING and almost a century after our country USA allowed women to vote.
Also, women can be flogged or imprisoned or even stoned to death for the "crime" of being a RAPE VICTIM.
TODAY CORPORATIONS AND GOVERNMENT WORK TOGETHER. That is why corporations are careful not to report negative things about their "friends" in Congress and the White House.
Fortunately the rise of the internet has allowed independent websites to reveal the info. The dominant megacorps at ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX may be silent about torture their "friends" in DC are committing, but websites like alexjones.com and huffingtonpost.com will not.