The fourth estate network optimization effort is expected to result in a cost avoidance for the department, which means money can be used for efforts supporting increased lethality.
The recent radical decision of the Securities and Exchange Commission against Rappler canceling its registration to continue operating as an online media entity without due process is a bad omen to the independence and objectivity of the press as
the Fourth Estate. It proves the present dispensation is dead serious in maiming and killing dissent at all costs.
The fourth estate, the press, the disciples of Voltaire, had replaced the clergy it had dethroned as the new arbiters of morality and rectitude.
The fourth estate has been giving voice to the third for about a quarter of a millennium, "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable," as the humorist Finley Peter Dunne put it.
Burns, a former radio journalist and now an associate professor of media studies at Quinnipiac University, argues in her book First Ladies and
the Fourth Estate that press coverage of Carter, Nixon, and other presidential spouses put them in a difficult position.
It might seem at face value that the most powerful institution in Britain is, indeed,
the Fourth Estate. Maybe it was always like this.
Once the President takes over that job,
the fourth estate has lost its function.
Is it a place where the media acts as
the fourth estate, or are they are more concerned about their next appearance before the CRTC?
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.'
Somewhere between Watergate and "embedding" with the military, the notion of
the fourth estate was chucked.
In the worst case scenario, this reduces reporting to a transcription of official pronouncements, transforming
the Fourth Estate from a public watchdog over officialdom into a transmission belt for the official version of reality.
Maybe this inertia is due to the timidity of many elected Democratic officials--not to mention the timidity, even the deliberate ignorance, of many of Green's fellow members of
the Fourth Estate. JOE MARTIN Seattle, Wash.
They surrender many of the necessary tools for questioning the authority of the armed forces, and render nearly useless the check and the balance of
the Fourth Estate on a major power of government.
Sadly, the slap-headed goalkeeper is irritated by
the Fourth Estate. "The English press?
This is the beginning of tyranny, and from
the Fourth Estate yet!