Noun
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mass media (singular mass medium)
Collectively, the communications media, especially television, radio, and newspapers, that reach the mass of the people.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. W. H. Auden
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. Alva Myrdal
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. Christopher Lasch
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason. Herbert Marcuse
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. Christopher Lasch
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media. Noam Chomsky