Fourth Estate

While the news media is sometimes referred to as the fourth estate, alongside the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, few think of stand-up comedy as a pillar of democracy.

We are long overdue for a reintroduction of the guidelines that offered some degree of trust in the fourth estate.

“That’s the whole value of democracy. You can voice your opinion, but I hope they understand by not subscribing that it just adds to the demise of democracy and the fourth estate,” he told Spectrum.

Clooney said he wanted to make a movie to let people hear some “really well-written words about the fourth estate again.”

Alex Garland’s powerful war drama is ostensibly a tribute to the fourth estate.