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In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a great meeting calling the following groups. The first consisted of three hundred nobles. The second, three hundred clergy. The third, six hundred commoners. Some years later, after the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, looking up at the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, said, “Yonder sits _________ and they are more important than them all.”
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The Fourth Estate
The term Fourth Estate or fourth power refers to the press and news media both in explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit ability to frame political issues.
The quote is from Jeffrey Archer's novel, The Fourth Estate. The book is fiction based on the lives of two real-life press barons, Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch.
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