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 Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Author:Edward W. Stollery II
Date:Saturday, 25th Aug 2001 04:02
Views:5,250 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Communications and Publishing
URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b12328

Thank Peter Travis (definition of Self Publishing Online) for telling us <<The media here /Sweden?/ is called "the third estate" and not "the fourth estate" as in Anglo-Saxon countries.>>

Okay, historians, now's YOUR turn to correct me! For a long time, I've thought that we Journalists were the "Fourth Estate" because the FRENCH legislative body, post revolution, had the First estate, land owners? Second Estate, religion? Third estate, ?? and Fourth Estate, Journalists. ???

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Topic Author Date ID
• Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Thank Peter Travis (definition of Self Publishing Online) for telling us ...
Edward W. Stollery II 25/08/01 04:02 12328
  • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
You're correct, except that it was *pre-Revolution*. Desperate to get approval for new taxes, in 1788 Louis XVI called an ...
John Birtwistle 28/08/01 14:33 12381
    • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Okay, John, we've the aristocracy; = the peers of England? The landowners... The second estate, the Church. That leaves the ...
Edward W. Stollery II 29/08/01 04:33 12397
      • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Hi Quaffers, not quite sure of the origin of this query, despite scanning the postings! But once again I ...
Marilyn Saklatvala 02/09/01 12:13 12489
        • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Thank you, Marilyn... Now, for the record, "Brewer's" means ... ? I could find nothing in my search engines under "Brewer's directory" ...
Edward W. Stollery II 03/09/01 04:50 12504
          • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, first published 1870 or so. Quite a number of online references, but I'm not ...
Patrick Wallace 03/09/01 09:31 12506
            • Re: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Please see NEW TOPIC by this title.
Edward W. Stollery II 04/09/01 04:40 12533
            • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Correction! - there's an online version of the 1894 edition at http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/255/frameset.html "Fourth Estate" appears in "Fourierism to Frangipani" (!): Fourth Estate of ...
Patrick Wallace 03/09/01 09:39 12507
      • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
Thanks for your message The Third Estate in the 18th Century French "parlement" (an enfeebled and tame consultative assembly, very unlike ...
John Birtwistle 29/08/01 14:39 12423
        • Re: Origin of Journalism = "X" Estate ??
So the non-Aristos are the 3rd estate -- which means, going back to the origin of this thread, that in ...
Edward W. Stollery II 30/08/01 06:57 12445

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