The Fifth Column of Biased Media exists as surely as any guerrilla operation on the planet. Instead of reporting the news they now look to direct/create it surreptitiously
Recently I inaccurately stated the Press (the modern media) was the “Fifth Estate” as quoted from Edmund Burke, famed 18th century orator and political theorist. Based on the feudal European class structure known as the “Estates of the Realm”, he referenced the First Estate as “the clergy”; the Second Estate as “the nobility” and the Third Estate as “the commoners”. Burke went further with the statement: “There are Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters” Gallery yonder, there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” He meant the press could hold the other three to accountability.
