Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The Fifth Estate. "The biggest little story of 2011."

"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all." -- Thomas Carlyle in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840.
Gunwalker, of course.
In our new age, the old media is slowly and reluctantly learning that they can no longer unilaterally decide what is news and what isn’t. Perhaps more importantly, Issa has reminded us that in a free society, it is the people’s duty to police the fourth estate in order to facilitate the fourth estate’s duty: to protect the people.
So, we're, what, the Fifth Estate?
LATER: No sooner had I written that last sentence when I went to find an illustration that fits and came up with this book cover:
Great minds and all that . . .

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"In our new age, the old media is slowly and reluctantly learning that they can no longer unilaterally decide what is news and what isn’t"


If that is the case why, with what we now know of gunwalker, do we not see absolute pandemonium in government, resignations, incarcerations and bodies swinging from bridges?

We still have no access to the average citizen. Their information is still tightly controlled and managed. These are the circumstances sought by those in charge and they now can use the military to track and interdict American citizens on American soil.

It isn't getting better. We are not seeing more freedom and liberty every day but less of it by the hour and it is now only a matter of time before we plummet off El Capitan without a chute.

No where do you see anyone in the public eye stand for freedom. They kill each other to get in front of a camera so they can take the credit for taking more away. The average person is now schooled to take orders and be compliant instead of free. All of it by design, which of course makes anyone pointing it out, a conspiracy theorist. When you point to the videos proving it, their faces, their words, their voices, you're still a nut job without any credibility because they control who has access and the story line.

And that was their plan all along.

Or maybe it's just a happy coincidence of circumstances, leading to a better Marxist world for all. Yeah that must be it!