Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   The Fourth Estate Date:   9/28/2013 10:26:32 AM

Simon Hersch… is himself, ferocious! A person in public office must feel the Sword of Damocles should this man appear in his life. That said, Hersch is correct, journalism used to be liberal (in the classical definition) and journalists were truly critical. That’s how the press earned the title.

“…but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” [Edmund Burke said of Parliament, 1787]

The press, outside of the three branches of government, has the power to incite the people… who in previous times, were served by their government… not, as is the case today.

It now seems that journalists and editors have meaningless credentials and are so impressionable that they think and publish what they are told to think and publish.