If the Press is the 4th estate, does that make bloggers and online publishers the 5th Estate?

I don't care where you are on any political spectrum, this story reported over on the Knappster should concern everyone.

Please link to it, write about it, keep it from getting buried.

An excerpt:

We knew it had to happen eventually: A blogger arrested for pissing off the powers that be.

DuBois' "crime?" Exposing some fairly nasty political corruption and prosecutorial abuse in his little corner of Ohio. Here's a chronology of events.