The Fourth Estate

The End of Mainstream Media

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Fourth Estate

The Main-Stream Media. Here's a site called the 4th Estate. It's last known post was January 31, 2013

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Fifth Estate

The Alternative Media

Mint Press News (09/17/2014

How The Mainstream Media Lost All Credibility & Why It’s Too Late To Save It

It's evident that The Press is losing traction with its audience.

Christian Post (09/16/2015)

An Insider's Look Behind the Mainstream Media's Crumbling Facade of Power

Personal account of a magazine publishing employee.

Intelligence^2 (10/27/2009)

GOOD RIDDANCE TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA

A collection of articles debating reasons for the demise of the mainstream media

Empire Dusk (08/21/2008)

The Biggest Show On Earth brought to you by Industrial Oligarchs

In the 5th to the last paragraph, I predict the demise of the Mainstream Media. I feel quite vindicated.

The printing press was invented around 1440. I'm just throwing it out there as my interpretation of the birth of the Fourth Estate, but it's debatable. The moniker was said to have been used first in 1787.

When Salon reported the suspension of CNN Reporter Elise Labott for a Tweet. I was inspired to create this post. It seems more frequently that Mainstream Media pulls more dirt over itself. They've become terrified sycophants to the rich and powerful.

CNN apparently has fallen out of favor of the Republican candidates, especially the Trump campaign. At a rally Noah Gray was threatened when he almost strayed off the reservation to cover a protester. The mantle of retribution for the mistreatment of reporters is the virility of the Internet.

In a 2011 Rolling Stone interview, Keith Olbermann describes the self-destructive nature of Corporate Media:

They form together in a massive id and they do whatever they want. In a corporate setting, there's nothing to stop Rupert Murdoch or Disney from doing whatever the hell they want with the news.

The Daily Kos brought up Keith Olbermann in a post titled "Is Comcast Quietly Suffocating MSNBC" January 15th of 2015, Just a few short months later, Ed Schultz was fired, Schultz changed his mind about the Keystone XL Pipeline in March of 2014

With the bulk of mainstream media owned by multinational corporations that spend millions if not billions of dollars on politicians, mainstream journalists find them selves in the middle, being crushed into submission, forced into fawning flattery and asking only softball questions to preserve their careers.

Politicians can now treat reporters badly with impunity. Sally Kohn at the Daily Beast asked "Rope-Ghazi: What Difference Does It Make?" If the reporters can be certain of their future income by crowd-funding their own podcasts and blogs, they might start raising the stakes with their questions.

Being fired from the mainstream media will actually give you more street cred.