4TH ESTATE FUNCTION: Assess Critically The Extent To Which The Free Market Imposes Itself

In order to emphasize the press's influence, an author first referred to the media as the fourth estate in 1821. The phrase, though somewhat out of date now, is nevertheless used to emphasize how crucial journalists are to politics. The following document is about a critical assessment of the extent to which the free market imposes itself on the fourth state function of the press.