Meaning:
The media and newspapers
Examples:
- What is happening here will happen with or without the Fourth Estate.
- That's why they call us the Fourth Estate.
- These are troubled times for the Fourth Estate, folks.
- And it is for this reason that I joined the Fourth Estate.
- Ah, a member of the Fourth Estate.
- The Fourth Estate was sometimes completely controlled by the First Estate and forfeited its independence.
- In the 18th century, Edmund Burke described the role of the press as a Fourth Estate checking the powerful.
- The 71-year rule of a one-party system, which was unbroken until 2000, created presidential power unchecked by balances in Congress, the Judiciary, and the Fourth Estate.
- Members of the fourth estate, what can I do for you?
- The Central Bank is not a fourth estate.