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Show The Fourth Estate. The expression "the fourth estate," referring to newspaper workers. Is credited to Edmund llurke. who Is quoted In Thomas Carlyle's tlfth lecture lec-ture tin "Heroes and Hero Worship" as wiylng. "There are three estates In p: filament, but In the reporters' gal-lery gal-lery yonder there sits a fourth estate, more Imporiunt fur than oy nil." This wns In W In thl aimtry where cluss dlstlncilarsVc. not made politically little ever is heard of the three estates-the nobility, the clergy and the people-but the term "fourth "state Is comparatively common. |