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» Brian Tubbs - Press Corps Evolved

Pink, I think our disagreement is more semantics. I think the Founders understood IN PRINCIPLE that "the press" meant more than a machine - that it in principle referred to the spread of information. Over the years, changes in technology and changes in laws have evolved the "press" into what is often called the "Fourth Estate." It HAS become institutionalized to a degree that it COULD be called its own special interest group.

But this is more a function of media outlets becoming Big Business than anything else. Small press outlets don't wield as much power and influence, although the Internet is rapidly changing the landscape.

It will be interesting to see what the "press" looks like 20 years from now. I think we are right now in the midst of tumultuous change, so it's hard to gauge it.