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The fourth estate, armed with nothing but questions and the nerve to ask twice.
means The collective news media — journalists, reporters, and the outlets that gather and publish current events.
from From Latin 'pressare,' to press or push, via Old French 'presse.' The word originally named the physical printing press — that great squeezing machine that pushed inked type onto paper — and by the 1500s the act of pressing pages became, by association, the printed word itself. From there it stretched to mean the people who produced those words, until 'the press' came to stand for journalism as a whole — the squeeze still lingering in every story wrung from a reluctant source.
- Gutenberg
- His 1440s press copied a wine-screw design
- Free press
- Only protected by name in the First Amendment
- Stop press
- Old presses literally halted for breaking news
- Deadliest beat
- Hundreds of journalists killed worldwide each decade
- Press release
- First one followed a 1906 train wreck
the associated press — founded 1846, world's oldest news cooperative with 4,000+ members
printing press — gutenberg's movable type press, 1440, revolutionized information distribution
bench press — powerlifting exercise, world record 575 lbs by ryan kennelly in 2024