…there were three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important far than they all. ~Edmund Burke

From Thomas Paine to Dan Rather, we've been trying to figure out where media - as an important institution - fits in as the essential element of democracy. But how does it survive in the new economy and age of digital information? And how do these new aspects of media change the way we talk to each other?

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