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  2. Fourth Estate - Wikipedia

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    The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media in their explicit capacity, beyond the reporting of news, of wielding influence in politics. [1] The derivation of the term arises from the traditional European concept of the three estates of the realm: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners.

  3. Estates of the realm - Wikipedia

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    the first estate of prelates (bishops and abbots) the second estate of lairds (dukes, earls, parliamentary peers (after 1437) and lay tenants-in-chief) the third estate of burgh commissioners (representatives chosen by the royal burghs) The First Estate was overthrown during the Glorious Revolution and the accession of William III. [17]

  4. The Fourth Estate (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The Fourth Estate is a four-part 2018 documentary television series about The New York Times ' coverage of the White House, directed by Liz Garbus.A 90-minute version was shown on April 28, 2018, at the Tribeca Film Festival and was followed by a panel discussion with Dean Baquet, Elisabeth Bumiller, Julie Davis, Mark Mazzetti, Liz Garbus, and Jenny Carchman. [1]

  5. Riksdag of the Estates - Wikipedia

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    The meeting at Arboga in 1435 is usually considered to be the first Riksdag, but there is no indication that the fourth estate, the farmers, were represented there. [citation needed] The actual first meeting is likely the one that took place at Uppsala in 1436 after the death of the rebel leader Engelbrekt.

  6. The Estates - Wikipedia

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    The Estates, also known as the States (French: États, German: Landstände, Dutch: Staten, Hungarian: Rendek), was the assembly of the representatives of the estates of the realm, the divisions of society in feudal times, called together for purposes of deliberation, legislation or taxation.

  7. Frederick Knight Hunt - Wikipedia

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    Hunt's major work was The Fourth Estate: Contributions towards a History of Newspapers and of the Liberty of the Press, 1850, a history of the English press.It gives details on legislative impediments to journalism; and chapters on the economy of newspaper offices in the writer's own day. [2]

  8. Fifth Estate - Wikipedia

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    The "Fifth" Estate extends the sequence of the three classical Estates of the Realm, nobility, clergy, subjects and the preceding Fourth Estate, essentially the mainstream press. The use of "fifth estate" dates to the 1960s counterculture , and in particular the influential The Fifth Estate , an underground newspaper first published in Detroit ...

  9. The Fourth Estate (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of the fourth estate is in essence the press as a watchdog on other powerful institutions or "estates", the original three estates in England and later the United Kingdom being the Lords Spiritual (of the Church of England), the Lords Temporal, and the commons. The fourth estate is charged with keeping an honest watch on activities ...