Fourth-Estate on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/fourth-estate/ Recent content in Fourth-Estate on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Sun, 22 Sep 2013 04:01:00 +0000 Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on Journalism as the Fourth Estate https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2013/09/22/thomas-carlyle-1795-1881-on-journalism-as-the-fourth-estate/ Sun, 22 Sep 2013 04:01:00 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2013/09/22/thomas-carlyle-1795-1881-on-journalism-as-the-fourth-estate/ <blockquote> <p>Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact. Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent Writing, Democracy is inevitable. Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making, in all acts of authority. It matters not what rank he has, what revenues or garnitures: the requisite thing is that he have a tongue which others will listen to; this and nothing more is requisite.</p>

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