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press lord
Also with capital initials.
[f. press n.1 + lord n.]
A powerful newspaper owner, a newspaper magnate, esp. one who is a member of the peerage. Cf. press baron s.v. press n.1 17 b.
1930Economist 30 Aug. 396/2 At the Labour Party Conference..resolutions will be discussed.. putting forward claims, rather reminiscent of those of the Press Lords, that certain Labour interests should dictate how the Cabinet should be composed. 1932Ann. Reg. 1931 23 The ‘press lords’, Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook, who had never abated their hostility to Mr. Baldwin, had once more opened a campaign against him, and in London at any rate they were not without a considerable following. 1947Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 22 Feb. 15/2 Roy Howard still dresses and acts among the press lords like a police reporter. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 22 Some Press-lords are wounded..or amused at the suggestion that increased circulation is one of their first aims. 1965Auden About House (1966) 15 Only a press lord Could have built San Simeon. 1977Time 17 Jan. 5/2 But the press lord from Down Under is no stranger to Time readers—or Time staffers. |