Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef The term Fourth Estate of the Realm, a descriptive term for the Press, is almost unanimously agreed to have been coined by Edmund Burke, a 19th Century British statesman and orator, who championed many human rights causes and brought attention to them through his eloquent speeches. By this description the Press is regarded to be the fourth of the traditional three estates of the Parliament namely: The Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal and the Commons. In medieval Europe, the three estates depicted the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners – each of whom sat in designated dais […]