Thomas Carlyle on Journalism
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“Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?”
“A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.”
“Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.”
“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. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, - very momentous to us in these times.”