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单词 the fourth estate
释义

the fourth estate

The press; the profession of journalism: she is reticent when it comes to members of the fourth estate...
  • The fourth estate conducted press conferences as though suffering aphasia.
  • The company has few friends left in the Irish fourth estate after herding journalists around its new European headquarters in Dublin last week.
  • Such tactics undermine the print media's history of quality journalism and the notion of the media as the fourth estate of democracy.
Originally used humorously in various contexts; its first usage with reference to the press has been attributed to Edmund Burke but this remains unconfirmed
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