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Americans have turned off the news, statistics show —on television, online, and in print. nie.mn/3k4OOC2

@KrikSteven @davidbewart Join @Murdoch_RC as a simple way to start revamping the system! Last year 500,000+ people signed Kevin's petition - it crashed and broke record for a parliamentary petition. 5000 submissions were made to special Senate committee. It's time!

Once the mouthpiece of the free world @BBCNews misses another opportunity to address the #ElephantInTheRoom & challenge US & UK Govts over persecuting #Assange & criminalising #FreePress. You are the #4thEstate - at some point silence becomes complicity! youtu.be/lYhPcZJ-ns4

@RedDoor_Consult ... That's what's supposed to happen ... Reality somewhat different

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Facts are sadly irrelevant to most "journalists" today. The Fourth Estate is completely corrupt. twitter.com/StephenGutowsk…

Rewatching @SpotlightMovie. Just as powerful as 1st time. Journalism matters! @MarkRuffalo @MichaelKeaton #newsbiz #journalism #4thestate

Maybe the greater story of#guccifer2.0 is not what's disclosed, but the failure of the reporters/fourth estate to cover it.

Srsly.. @washingtonpost once fourth estate nobleman now shamelessly bait us guarding the status quo. @BLUpfront twitter.com/kairyssdal/sta…

"The fourth estate is not doing its job". Very clearly not.

Facebook Fourth Estate? Two Questions Lawyers Should Answer (@morganweiland - @StanfordCIS) redef.it/24ZZ9xS

A journalist's job is to ask Qs politicians don't want/find uncomfortable to answer. Fourth Estate's role. Nothing to be insinuated. #qanda

THE FOURTH ESTATE (2015 UK documentary) on Media, Media Reform and who/what controls news output youtu.be/2FnbbgUIO4w

Mike McCurry, former @WhiteHouse press secretary, on the need to respect the Fourth Estate @Newseum #freespirit16

Local news isn’t dead. We just need to stop killing it. cjr.bz/28KjDcr

Help @EFF send a message to congress: no global hacking warrants! bit.ly/28KTHwK @privacyint @bytesforall

Uzbekistan: The naked truth about state censorship @Free_Muse freemuse.org/archives/12267

Despite admirable work by its news division, BuzzFeed is still plagued by one issue cjr.bz/28KAKJZ

Al Jazeera condemns Egypt over life sentence to its two journalists ow.ly/I9Lk301s5Dt

Last week, the 5th annual Digital News Report from @risj_oxford. Here’s what @damianradcliffe says you need to know. ow.ly/czQt301qhUH