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From: St. Louis Journalism Review
Date: 20070301
Author:Wallis, David

Reflecting on government in 1840s England, Victorian essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote of an even more commanding presence in the halls of power: "In the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.... "Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent Writing, Democracy is inevitable," he continued. "Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making, in all acts of authority." While parts read a little stuffy ...

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