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fifth estate

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fifth estate
n.
A class or group in society other than the nobility, the clergy, the middle class, and the press.
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Presumably typewriters in their day were disgustingly newfangled, and the older gentlemen of the Fifth Estate clung on to their trusty Parker Vacumatic fountain pens.
It's all change, mark my words by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
A one time prime minister of the UK, Stanley Baldwin, before he got the top job, once laughed a tirade against the Press and pointing to journalists in the gallery of the House of Commons said they were a Fifth Estate with "Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages".
MPs enjoy 'power without responsibility' by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
During that time, colleagues and superiors closed ranks to protect him, and Jim Young, the chief coroner of the time, closed his ears to a rising tide of protest regarding Smiths shoddy work-from sources as disparate as Mullins-Johnson's lawyer, writing as a concerned private citizen, to an Ontario judge, to a Peterborough MP, to the Fifth Estate and Maclean's magazine.
Inquiry to shine light on coroner's findings by Harries, Kate / Windspeaker
 
 
 
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