Agreed with the airtime issue.
The entire point of the Suffragette movement's tactics was to generate media interet. Of course doign as many 'unladylike' things as possible. Of course the media storm, not least of all from being run over by a horse, contributed to the female vote. The Media affects change.
Curiously, Grimsby/Cleethorpes was part of a reasonably important cover-up in the Second World War. Butterfly bombs, if anyone's heard of them, were small anti-personnel explosives which were designed to flutter down, and then detonate only upon being disturbed. Basically, a number of locals were killed, but not a single mention was made in the local Grimsby Evening Telegraph. Hitler/the Axis, scanned all British news reports and found nothing referring to people being killed unexpectedly etc by these bombs. Declaring they were faulty/poor design/clearly didn't work as expected, the project was shelved. In reality, they were, of course hugely deadly, morally-sapping, and very cheap and easy to produce to boot, they could have wreaked havoc nationally, were it not for the press hushing up the whole event.
That one act saved possibly thousands of innocent civilians' lives.
Dear Worlds' Press
Know your history. It comes in.