Editing Fourth Estate (section)

==Etymology==
[[Oxford English Dictionary]] attributes, ("without confirmation") the origin of the term to [[Edmund Burke]], who may have used it in a British parliamentary debate of 19–20 February 1771, on the opening up of press reporting of the [[House of Commons of Great Britain]]. Historian [[Thomas Carlyle]] reported the phrase  in his account of the night's proceedings, published in 1840, attributing it to Burke.<ref name =OED7b>{{OED|estate 7b}}</ref><ref name=Carlyle>{{cite book|last=Carlyle|first=Thomas|title=On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions |chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sartor_Resartus_and_On_Heroes,_Hero-Worship_and_the_Heroic_in_History_(Macmillan)/On_Heroes,_Hero-Worship_and_the_Heroic_in_History/Lecture_5|edition=Macmillan, 1901|date=19 May 1840|publisher=James Fraser|location=London|page=392|chapter=Lecture V: The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns|oclc=2158602}}</ref><ref name=MacK/>