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the Fourth Estate

noun [S]
 
 

Definition

newspapers, magazines, television, and radio stations and the people who work for them who are thought to have a lot of political influenceMedia in general
(Definition of the Fourth Estate noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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