mass medium
noun
plural mass media
: a medium of communication (such as newspapers, radio, or television) that is designed to reach the mass of the people
—usually used in plural
Examples of mass medium in a Sentence
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In countries where mass media information is unreliable or heavily controlled, social networking sites serve to communicate the truth.
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Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
The mass media has been mostly co-opted by the ruling BJP to advance its agenda.
—Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
That feeling of vague recognition was Sherman’s point, as well as that of other artists of the era experimenting with pictures from mass media, who would eventually be called the Pictures Generation, a name based on a 1977 exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp.
—Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
That was—as far as other mass media coverage—somewhat more positive.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
In the days before the arrival of 20th-century mass media, politicians, barkers and buskers often found eager audiences by simply mounting a soapbox, a flour barrel or even climbing a ladder on a crowded street — at least if the police did not object.
—Michael Jackman, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2024
When Columbia as an institution tells a story, the protesters who took over the building [in 1968] are not presented as vandals in a way that the mass media tended to frame them at the time.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
Its human elements are ahead of their time, satirizing mass media and advertising while bringing tongue-in-cheek meta-humor to the series decades before those themes came into fashion.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
The movie is a lark, not a hard-hitting statement about how mass media corrupts the soul.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
The mass media has been mostly co-opted by the ruling BJP to advance its agenda.
—Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
That feeling of vague recognition was Sherman’s point, as well as that of other artists of the era experimenting with pictures from mass media, who would eventually be called the Pictures Generation, a name based on a 1977 exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp.
—Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
That was—as far as other mass media coverage—somewhat more positive.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
In the days before the arrival of 20th-century mass media, politicians, barkers and buskers often found eager audiences by simply mounting a soapbox, a flour barrel or even climbing a ladder on a crowded street — at least if the police did not object.
—Michael Jackman, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2024
When Columbia as an institution tells a story, the protesters who took over the building [in 1968] are not presented as vandals in a way that the mass media tended to frame them at the time.
—Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
Its human elements are ahead of their time, satirizing mass media and advertising while bringing tongue-in-cheek meta-humor to the series decades before those themes came into fashion.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
The movie is a lark, not a hard-hitting statement about how mass media corrupts the soul.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
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“Mass medium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass%20medium. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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