People continued to be surprised about the power and reach of Hollywood. Even when they learn about the lengths Hollywood will go to protect its major money makers, people instinctively deny the reality of just what Hollywood would do and has done.
Recall that when George W. Bush was POTUS and decided to invade several Middle East Countries In alphabetical order as he put it?
Remember how surprised we all were when we were told that Iraq would be invaded before Iran even though that was not the alphabetical order but Bush insisted Mommy taught me the alphabet and so Dick Cheney (He had the right first name, didn't he?) calmed everybody down and so America invaded Iraq first and the powers that be in Hollywood convinced Bush that Saddam had to be executed for pretending to be Mel Gibson and the rest, as they say, is history.