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noun authors, columnists, commentators, correspondents, editors, interviewers, journalistic writers, journalists, literary publications, media, members of the media, members of the press, news business, news gatherers, newsmen, newspaper world, newspaperman, newspapers, newswriters, publicists, publishers, reportersAssociated concepts: censorship, First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of the press
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(Beseech), verb adjure, appeal, ask earnestly, beg, call upon, enjoin, entreat, exhort, impetrate, implore, importune, petition, plead, request, supplicate, urge, urgerepress
(Constrain), verb bear down on, bind, bring pressure to bear, coerce, command, compel, decree, demand, drive, enforce, exact, extort, force, impel, impose, insist, make, make necessary, necessitate, obligate, oblige, order, put pressure on, put under obligation, require, take no deeial, urge forward, wringpress
(Goad), verb aggravate, agonize, annoy, badger, beset, bother, browbeat, carp at, disquiet, drive, harry, heckle, hector, hound, incite, instigare, instigate, irritate, molest, persecute, pester, plague, prod, provoke, put pressure on, stir up, taunt, tease, torment, trouble, vex, worrySee also: attach, bait, call, claim, coax, coerce, compel, constrain, constrict, demand, desire, duress, enforce, exact, exhort, exigency, force, hasten, impact, impede, implore, importune, impose, incite, inculcate, insist, jostle, lobby, lure, motivate, plead, pray, pressure, prompt, seize, solicit, spirit, urge, weigh
PRESS. By a figure this word signifies the art of printing. The press is
free.
2. All men have a right to print and publish whatever they may deem
proper, unless by doing so they infringe the rights of another, as in the
case of copyrights, (q.v.) when they may be enjoined. For any injury they
may commit against the public or individuals they may be punished, either by
indictment, or by a civil action at the suit of the party injured, when the
injury has been committed against a private individual. Vide Const. of the
U. S. Amend. art. 1, and Liberty of the Press.