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Meaning media meaning

What does media mean?
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media

The (mass) media is/are the news sources and the people behind them. The media have been too accepting of the government's arguments. The Japanese media often ignores international news. A medium is a way of information or art. We have to use music, pictures and other media to sell the product.

media

(anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus vein of insect wing

media

(often, used as, _, uncountable, though such use is, _, proscribed) Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information. the journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry

Media

(historical) A region in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes (historical) The territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Media. territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Media

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Simple sentences

Never believe the mass media.
Tom posted a lewd photo of himself on social media.
An image is formed by the information in the media.
The government tends to control the media.
Why don't you try out getting a new Windows Media Player skin and changing the player's look?
When I try to listen to music with media player there's an error and I can't play the file.
Why is it the mass media didn't report this?
Compare unidirectional mass media such as radio and television with bidirectional ones such as correspondence and the Internet.
Even though the media reports that she is a potential presidential candidate, does anyone really think that she is a potential president?
On behalf of the government, the mass media are abused.
The media doesn't distribute this news.
Social media is growing in importance.
With social media it's possible to find out a lot of information about someone before meeting them.
Social media have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet new research suggests that we have never been lonelier and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill.
Once you get used to electronic media, you can no longer do without them.
Newspapers, television, and radio are called the mass media.
Never trust the mass media.
Don't believe the media.
Mary has always been left-leaning, but since she's got a seat in parliament for the Left Party, she has become a media star with her radical critique of capitalism.
Even if all countries of the world and all the news media were to recognize the legitimacy of this racist regime, on the moral level it would always remain racist.

Movie subtitles

As our social media director, I'm surprised that you didn't know that.
The media unanimously proclaims this is a scandal.
The foreign press reported this news which was suppressed by the French media.
The media is awash in speculation vis-a-vis their whereabouts.
Pupils, teachers and missionaries, are learning to operate the most modern media instrument of the 20th century.
As soon as I said that, it was out and through the media all over the world!
THEORY OF MASS MEDIA.the act of perception as it is produced.
Mere fodder for the mass media.
City Hall and all the mass communications media.
You see. the media's got a script now. by the numbers.
Nevertheless, I am not discussing media.
And why doesn't the media report that stuff to the people?
But I expected more atention. there's a conspiracy of silence from the police and the media. sic transit gloria.
Media vuelta.
She deleted all of her social media.
I gave my word that the media won't know.
OCCUPATION, VICE PRESIDENT, AD AGENCY, IN CHARGE OF MEDIA.
VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF MEDIA.
Great lord of Media and Persia.
No, I haven't been near the media department lately.
They work for the news media.
He only has one goal: media attention and better sales, by scaring honest citizens.
With my money, we could saturate the media.
Press, television, all media. I'll do my best, sir.
The police force is criticised by everybody. all of you, judges, city hall, the media.
The security of the Jeju forum will be tight. There is an uproar of news circulating among the foreign media saying that John Mayer is finally going to reveal his true self.
As you know. characteristics of the media.
I am willing to insert a correction notice in the media.
For presiding over this gala, celebrating the media. and honouring it with your presence.
If anyone else uses force. to preserve his or her dignity. they are immediately vilified. by the mass media. who are under bourgeois control.
Especially to our friends from the media.
The media are the backbone of our society.
Especially the entertainment and television media.
The new crime wave is due..chiefly to the excessive media freedom.
So when the media demands to know what we are doing we'll tell them we have definite clues.
Forget the myths the media's created about the White House. The truth is, these are not very bright guys. and things got out of hand.
The media'll eat it up.
I don't want the police and I don't want the news media.
To facilitate the broadcast media, we will precede each announcement with a 5 seconds. tone, followed by a 1 second pause.

News and current affairs

Many citizens believe, rightly, that their mass media are failing to investigate and document abuses.
Concentration of media ownership and control further fuels popular mistrust, setting the stage for citizen investigation to enter the vacuum.
Frequently enough, it is citizens digging at the margins of the discourse - pursuing such theories - who report on news that the mainstream media ignores.
In many cases, the cohesiveness of opposition movements that come to power in the wake of a political upheaval may not be what the international media presume it to be.
Others, such as Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev (popular with Western media when he first came on the scene) plainly has not.
Moreover, in an era of global media and international war crimes courts, the criteria for states' use of military force have become more complex than ever.
The legal system, schools, and the media could bring change, but no official entity takes the problem seriously enough to initiate effective action.
Health education through public media, reaching distant areas of the country, is an urgent priority, but has been utterly ignored in favor of commercial priorities.
The mystique of immense wealth, noble birth, and great exclusivity is further sustained by the global mass media that promote these rituals.
NEW YORK - The past half-century has been the age of electronic mass media.
Now an explosion of new media devices is joining the TV set: DVDs, computers, game boxes, smart phones, and more.
A growing body of evidence suggests that this media proliferation has countless ill effects.
Television and related media have been the greatest purveyors and conveyors of corporate and political propaganda in society.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently warned that TV viewing by young children is dangerous for their brain development, and called on parents to keep children under two away from the TV and similar media.
Rumor has it the couple has set February 8 or 9 for the wedding. Others say that Sarkozy has already outsmarted the media by secretly marrying in the Elysee Palace, even as he was dodging wedding questions.
When Sarkozy, who otherwise has such finely tuned media instincts, protests that he's no different from any other man, he comes dangerously close to confusing the office and the person of the president.
The mainstream media's tendency to avoid checking out or reporting what is actually newsworthy in Internet conspiracy theories partly reflects class bias.
That, in turn, requires educating the public further about human rights and women's rights through school textbooks, continuing education courses, and a vigorous media campaign.
The Japanese media's coverage of the visit was overwhelmingly negative, and it was remembered as a public-relations disaster.
It remains a sobering lesson, one that presents the media in the role of aggressor and violator, in contrast to their normal position as victim.
He is a grandee, a mover and shaker in the academic and media world, a friend of President Barack Obama.
From his words it appears that he was equally conscious of not getting the proper respect due to a distinguished Harvard professor and media celebrity.
The other key reason behind the world's silence is that the Sri Lankan government was relentless in banning independent observers - media, NGOs, or diplomats - from witnessing or reporting on its actions.

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