Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism as theater [is what] TV news is.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.