I said the state is not working class as a starting retort as well as a way to signal where I’m coming from, the rest is pointing out having a class in control of the workers and the media is a bad idea.

The problem is that in a working class state, the class in control of the workers and the media is the working class itself. This is just standard organization. Class is not a stand-in for hierarchy, because class has very clear definitional relations to ownership of the means of production, and how this reinforces class society. A manager of a firm that owns said firm just as much as anyone under them is not a different class, but a different position.

In other words, the problem with class society is not hierarchy in general, but class in particular. Hierarchy has utility, strategians and tacticians serve different necessary purposes. The fact that hierarchies form an essential part of organization does not mean that capitalists, private owners siphoning all of the surplus of society, are necessary. Workers can organize in a socialist fashion to direct and plan production so as to suit everyone’s needs, and this system would still have hierarchy.