Comments on: Journalism legend impersonates a grenade

By: George Bohler

George Bohler — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:27:26 +0000

The fifth estate is the empty and impotent astral reflection of the fourth estate.

By: JackD

JackD — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:26:41 +0000

Sometimes political science types will refer to the bureaucracy as the fifth estate.

By: Doug Kenline

Doug Kenline — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:25:12 +0000

Ok, yeah, I think he must have meant “the fourth estate” referring to the press.

I don’t like the term “the fifth estate” to describe next-generation/alternative press.

I think the “next-generation/alternative press” represents the rebirth of the fourth estate, the rebirth of a truly free press.

There is no place for any estate that has no value or serves no purpose. It would be a waste of an estate to say that the fourth estate is the coporate controlled media lie machine and now the fifth estate is the new reborn once again truly free press. The old media needs to just go the way of the dinasaur and be replaced by the new media, taking its rightful place as the great fourth estate.

Edmund Burke said that there were three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important than they all.”

By: weldon berger

weldon berger — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:54:31 +0000

Doug, George may have meant “Fouth Estate,” but I have seen “Fifth Estate” used to describe next-generation/alternative press, and there’s a CBC-TV investigative news program by that name.

By: Doug Kenline

Doug Kenline — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:36:28 +0000

George Bohler, please forgive my ignorance. What do you mean by “the fifth estate”?

Or if anybody else knows what George means by “the fifth estate” please explain.

I understand the free press to be the fourth estate but I don’t understand the fifth estate.

Thank you very much. And yes, great article from Betty The Crow News as usual.