public press
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- noun
- /ˈpʌblɪk prɛs/
- Literature
:
prensa pública
- Investigative stories often emerge from the public press, shedding light on important matters.
Examples
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Why does the Carnegie report ignore all alternative points of view and all the arguments against its favorite nostrums that have been made repeatedly in the public press?
Academic text (1990) -
It became clear that the Texas State Education Agency did not have sufficient authority to deal with the problems being identified by the public press.
Academic text (2013) -
Although numbers attributed by the public press must be taken as somewhat unreliable, they are the best available.
Academic text (2001) -
It appeared in the public press for a while during the 1992 campaign, but never became an index entry in either the index of the New York Times or the Washington Post.
Academic text (1998) -
Jake Grafton had had a few classified briefings about CBW, which stood for chemical and biological warfare, but he knew little more than was available in the public press.
Fiction book (2000) -
The public press listed cholera preventatives and gave daily tabulations of cholera deaths, as well as publishing open letters from researchers relating the links between a healthy water supply and cholera eradication.
Academic text (1992) -
The public press plays a vital role in keeping the community informed about current events.
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Many people rely on the public press for news and updates on politics and social issues.
Synonyms
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1.1
People and organizations that gather and publish news
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2.3
Organizations like newspapers and TV that report and share news
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Newspapers and magazines printed on paper, not online
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News organizations like newspapers and TV that watch and report on people in power
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
The MWE is compositionally built from 'public' (the general population / for the public) + 'press' (journalists, newspapers), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to newspapers and magazines collectively. This modifier+noun combination follows standard English noun-phrase logic and is cross-linguistically common, making the meaning directly derivable.
Etymology
Public press comes from the old printing machines called the press, which printed newspapers for the public. Because those machines stood for the people and companies that made the news, public press now means 'newspapers and magazines together'.