But it was forever we've had this issue, which is power kind of hates the fourth estate.

但长久以来，我们一直面临这个问题，那就是权力往往厌恶第四权力（新闻界）。

It is time to debate a public funding option before the fourth estate disappears, and with it, our grand democratic experiment.

是时候在第四等级消失之前讨论公共资金选项，随之而来的是我们的宏伟民主实验。

There cannot be a fourth estate, however you want to define it, which does the governing apart from the people at large.

无论你如何定义，都不可能存在一个脱离广大民众而进行统治的第四等级。

And we've always believed in the idea of when the other three estates, the judiciary branch and the executive branch and, you know, When they all fail you, you really need that fourth estate, right?

而且我们一直相信这样一个理念：当其他三个机构，即司法部门、行政部门， 还有你知道的，当它们都让你失望时， 你真的需要那个第四机构，对吧？