- Edmund Burke announced that the fourth estate acted as a check on abuses of power by other estates (religion, parlaiment and the courts). They do this by 'holding them accountable to the electorate and providing information to ensure democracy is allowed to operate efficiently'.
Is new media technology responsible for the decline in newspapers?
- The new access of news via satellite and cable with 24 hour rolling news channels, and the news available on the internet has more or less run down the newspapers, since all newspapers had to compete against in the past was merely teletext. On top of this it is read free of charge online or via cable!
What does it mean "maybe the internet is already the cyberspace of the fourth estate"?
