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		Pigo on July 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The R. Kelly ‘cult’ story and the ‘Gawker Effect’ I'm so gullible, for a minute there I was like "there's a fifth estate now"? I thought I was going to have to google what this new estate was all about.

mmjaa on July 31, 2017 [–]

The Fifth Estate are bloggers, and sites like Gawker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate

Pigo on July 31, 2017 | [–]

Well then, shows how much I know. I'd never heard of them being called that. It seems odd that another type of news agency would be a different estate.

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