mass media

plural noun

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

mass media

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

Example Sentences

Psychology and mass media professor Richard M. Perloff found that advertising is actually even more effective on us when we don’t agree with the message or if we consider its source to be bad or its subject irrelevant.

From Slate

Even then, they mainly constituted “one-way information dissemination efforts via mass media and web-based channels; they were rarely reflective of bottom-up, participatory approaches to engage communities on the protective behaviours,” the authors wrote.

From Salon

During their chat, Rogan describes the mass media as a creepy, corrupt business that “to a large extent, acts as a propaganda arm for the Democratic Party.”

From Salon

This is not a politician who is unaware of the power of mass media to shape perceptions of him.

From Slate

That and so much more — left unsaid from the debate stage, dodged in U.S. mass media and evaded from the podiums of power in Washington — indict not only the Israeli government but also the U.S. government as an accomplice to mass murder that has escalated into genocide.

From Salon

Related Words

• broadcasting
• media