Ultimately, Cook's responses echoed with a call for a policy discussion about this very sensitive privacy subject rather than a knee jerk, pressured, in-the-public-spotlight conversation (like is happening now).
And with President Obama declaring January National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, that asked businesses, religious groups and families to learn more about the issue that exposes 27 million people worldwide to forced labor, sexual exploitation and violence -- human trafficking has been thrust into the national spotlight and conversation.
Here are some of those advances spotlighted in conversations with both Obama and Clinton aides and advisers.
In addition, the festival has sections devoted to Latin and Asian films, and a director's spotlight featuring a conversation with Mr. Singleton.
With this blog, Dr. Garay-Serratos will advance the conversation, spotlight new research and practices and share information that can transform lives.
Scorsese talked briefly of the post-production race to finish "Wolf," but the spotlight in the conversation was clearly on Wong, even as he repeatedly paid tribute to the American filmmaker.
Without clear guidance from the colleges, mixed-race students often turn to one another for advice, and their conversations spotlight how contentious the multiracial factor is in admissions.
The show may deserve a nod for spotlighting women's conversation, for treating sexuality frankly and for rendering the traditionally stigmatized state of being a single woman more acceptable -- indeed, chic.
Now "Spotlight" is advancing the conversation further.
The Danish Girl also seems to be slipping behind The Revenant, The Big Short and Spotlight in the awards conversation, too.
But after spending five years writing a novel that puts race under a "gritty" spotlight, this is a conversation she wants us to have.
