The Fifth Estate: Blog Mobs

TV consultant Shelly Palmer coins a way of looking at the term Fifth Estate today on MediaPost, calling “blog mobs” “The Fifth Estate.” The argument goes something like this: If journalism and the press are the Fourth Estate (after the three traditional arms), then the new technologies creates a new mass entity allowing people to aggregate, to “mob” and assemble as never before, assert their mass control over information that no longer emanates from a central point:

“This is the first time in history that an idea (good or bad, true or false) can travel worldwide instantaneously and live on with a permanent, un-erasable, record of itself.

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