Contemporary Media, Beyond the Fourth Estate
Contemporary Media, Beyond the Fourth Estate

Summary/Abstract: The press has been, over the decades, one of the elements that have ensured the smooth functioning of society. Through its purpose, the media has tried and is still trying to be a mirror objectively reflecting reality, impartially presenting it to the public, sanctioning the abuses of the authorities, as well as those of ordinary people from the laws and social norms. And that's why the press received the title of "watchdog" of society and it was also called the "Fourth Power in the State". Obviously things can not remain at this level. The public's growing dissatisfaction with the quality of the information transmitted through the traditional media, its doubts about the objectivity and impartiality of the journalists forced by the editorial policy of the media institution to relate not what they saw, but on the contrary depending on the political and economic interests of the leadership of the institution for which they work, has determined the emergence of a new form of journalistic expression. One that many have rushed to categorize as civic, but which is actually a citizen's form of expression: the one living online. The Fifth Power in the State.

• Details
• Contents