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The fourth estate

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a name often given to the public press.

See also: Estate



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Written for general audiences, this book concentrates on the "golden era" of newspapers before the Internet and cable television and how high standards of responsible journalism were maintained according to the ideals of the Fourth Estate.
The crow bars of the Fourth Estate must indeed have been well used.
Jim's final line to the gentlemen of the Fourth Estate was: 'I don't want to read me slaughtering the ref in tomorrow's papers.
 
 
 
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