Meaning of Fleet Street | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A street in Westminster borough, London, England, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism.
2. English journalism or journalists as a group.
   collective, metonymically

Examples

“And it is to bee ſeene in London, at the red Lyon, in Fleteſtreete.”

“"They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me." "In the face of photographs?" "Faked, Summerlee! Clumsily faked!" "In the face of specimens?" "Ah, there we may have them! Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet."”

“Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.”

“We will know soon enough whether Cameron's was a masterly piece of nerve keeping, or the fatal blunder that broke the union of 1707. In 2012, Salmond gave some listeners the impression that devo max is what he really wanted. Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: "I told you so", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.”

“It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen.”

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