Stop the ‘Presses’?

In the wonderfully noir movie Deadline USA, Humphrey Bogart plays a newspaperman who battles corruption in New York City as he fights to keep his beloved newspaper from dying. In one of the final scenes, as the racketeer on the phone threatens Bogart’s character to prevent him from printing a story, he is disturbed by noises coming from Bogart’s end. “What’s that racket?” the gangster demands. “That’s the press, baby, the press!” Bogart replies. “And there’s nothing you can do about it. Nothing.”