[JumpCrisscross]

> Who decides which organizations are part of the fourth estate?

In the United States, given our Constitution enumerates certain freedoms for the press, there is a rich corpus of case law drawing this delineation. I am not sure if such a corpus exists in the EU, and am fairly certain it does not exist in every one of the EU's twenty-eight member states.

[wbl]

What delineation? It doesn't exist. Anyone can say "fuck the President". There is no extra special secret first amendment for journalists.

[JumpCrisscross]

> What delineation? It doesn't exist.

The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." [1]. The comma is the delineation. In case law, the exploration of this delineation has produced definitions with precedent [2].

More practically, the linked-to article explores "whether the 'institutional press' is entitled to greater freedom from governmental regulations or restrictions than are non-press individuals, groups, or associations," concluding "the speech and press clauses may be analyzed under an umbrella 'expression' standard, with little, if any, hazard of missing significant doctrinal differences." (TL; DR There is a line, but it does not appear to matter much.)

[1] https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/06-diffe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_the_Un...