How to Use mass medium in a Sentence

mass medium

noun
  • Many of these questions were part of the debates during the rise of mass media.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 June 2019
  • The technique has been around since the advent of radio as a mass medium.
    Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
  • 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
  • These were the kinds of one-to-many, top-down mass media that Orwell’s Big Brother had used to stay in power.
    Fred Turner, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The problem is that the British past offers no clear guidance about what to do if a prime minister falls ill in an age of mass media.
    Luke Reader, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The mass media has been mostly co-opted by the ruling BJP to advance its agenda.
    Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • As the scholar Rebecca Knuth explained to Smithsonian.com last year, the path to that moment in 1933 in some ways starts with the printing press and the subsequent spread of mass media.
    Lily Rothman, Time, 18 May 2018
  • But the youngest actors have the haziest relationship with AIDS, informed by the mass media of their childhood.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Painting was its day’s mass media in the 19th century, and no one had the awareness to question their canvases.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Sep. 2019
  • WhatsApp has also relied on mass media to solve its fake news problem.
    Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 22 Oct. 2019
  • To me, this unintended example of serendipity in mass media seems like a small glimpse of what’s to come.
    Kylie Robison, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Television emerged as a mass medium during the 1950s, just in time to help fuel early Cold War hysteria.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 9 June 2022
  • In recent years, his wordplay has become more enigmatic and less overtly tied to mass media.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In the 20th century, the mass media began to tell those stories to a fascinated public.
    Nara B. Milanich, Time, 10 June 2019
  • The island's free-wheeling mass media show scenes of empty shelves and worried shoppers, giving viewers a sense of scarcity.
    Ralph Jennings, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • My development as a teenage fan was fueled by mass media and by other people.
    Nancy Baym, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • At the turn of the millennium, audiobooks were closer to a cottage industry than a mass medium.
    Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • What does that mean in today’s world of mass media and political division?
    Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
  • These books represent the beginnings of modern mass media.
    Rachel Adler, Slate Magazine, 4 Aug. 2017
  • For Brown, the Holzer refers to mass media and fine art, evoking both modern technology and ancient burial practices.
    Steven Litt, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2020
  • His upcoming show will use AI techniques and technology to combine mass media collages with five large-scale new works.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Eventually, Roemer escalates the action into the distinctive New York realm of mass media and the whiplash ironies that follow a rush of celebrity.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Keene said the mass media, TV shows and social media can often dehumanize people.
    AZCentral.com, 16 July 2023
  • 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
  • Before the era of mass media, mass literacy and cheap communication, knowledge of the world was foggy.
    The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • Organized by curator Timothy O. Benson, the show looks at how the war was presented through the lens of burgeoning mass media.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Parents, peers and mass media can all reinforce good or bad views of violence in relationships.
    Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018
  • This mass media company is a spin-off of Tele-Communications.
    Fortune, 1 July 2019
  • That was—as far as other mass media coverage—somewhat more positive.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Offit ably traces the origin of the modern anti-vaccine movement to a fact-free campaign in 1982 blaming the whooping cough vaccine for childhood injuries, which was taken up by the mass media but had no basis in fact.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024

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