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• plural of mass medium.

mass media

British  

plural noun

1. the means of communication that reach large numbers of people in a short time, such as television, newspapers, magazines, and radio

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mass media Cultural  

1. Newspapers, motion pictures, radio, television, and magazines, all of which have the technical capacity to deliver information to millions of people.

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mass media

The show of Broad collection works spanning six decades, as curated by Jen Vanegas Rocha, addresses myths “and the way social media, mass media, can kind of mythologize things that happened to us,” Patuto said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

"You simply don't need the mass media in the way that you did previously and athletes understand this," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Friday, the Thirteenth author Lawson, himself a noted stock manipulator who used the mass media of his era to influence markets and make and lose a fortune, called it “the Wall Street hoodoo-day.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

And the new mass media of both periods—then, radio and film; today, the internet—have generated concerns about how to tell truth from deception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

As mass media has grown corporatized—with journalism, publishing, moviemaking, and the music business getting sold and merged into fewer and larger monoliths— geeks feel ever more entitled to take whatever intellectual property they want.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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