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In today’s world, the press, often called the “fourth estate,” is a catalyst for national development.<\/p>\n
Historically, the clergy, nobility and common people were considered the first three estates. In modern democracies, the executive, legislative and judicial branches occupy those positions, while the media is widely regarded as the fourth estate. That distinction underscores the enormous importance of the press.<\/p>\n
By Isaac Solo Kelgbeh<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> In today’s world, the press, often called the “fourth estate,” is a catalyst for national development. Historically, the clergy, nobility and common people were considered the first three estates. In modern democracies, the executive, legislative and judicial branches occupy those positions, while the media is widely regarded as the fourth estate. That distinction underscores the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4383,18301,7962,4712,1107,10127,7717,4959,257,254,10128],"class_list":["post-246546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-force","tag-formidable","tag-importance","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lone","tag-making","tag-media","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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