VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Fourth Estate

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.