When was for the first time Media termed as the forth pillar of Democracy

Question

Everybody knows that media is 4th pillar of Democracy but Do you know when was for the first time Media termed as the forth pillar of Democracy?

Answer 1

DEMOCRACY MEANS BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE,OF THE PEOPLE.

Answer 2

In the USA newspapers have been important as far back as the late colonial period. Jefferson once said, exaggerating some I think, that given the choice between government and newspapers he would take the papers.

Answer 3

The term Fourth Estate (Fourth Pillar) refers to the press, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle in the first half of the 19th century.

Novelist Jeffrey Archer in his work The Fourth Estate made the observation: "In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a full meeting of the 'Estates General'. The First Estate consisted of three hundred clergy. The Second Estate, three hundred nobles. The Third Estate, six hundred commoners. Some years later, after the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, looking up at the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, said, 'Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, and they are more important than them all.'"