How to Use mass media in a Sentence

mass media

noun
  • Using mass media to broadcast campaign stops is not new, of course.
    — Stuart Soroka, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
  • These events all drew mass media attention and introduced the sport to new fans.
    — Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Right-wing talk radio hosts have been jumping into politics since roughly the dawn of mass media.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The mass media model that requires you to appeal to everyone doesn’t work anymore.
    — Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The choices of mass media genres tend to target different market sectors.
    — Tham Thi Nguyen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • His vision merges high fashion with mass media, often blurring the line between runway and pop spectacle.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The interaction between genres and mass media is considered to be a driving force that contributes to changes in genres.
    — Tham Thi Nguyen, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Along with mass media attention, Gehman has heard from conservationists and scientists who hope to build on their findings.
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Freddrell’s ultimate passion lies at the intersection of mass media and entrepreneurship.
    — Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026
  • And that troubles me greatly as well, because TikTok was a potential alternative to old mass media.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Consumer neuroscience has become a mainstream component of consumer research methods in the mass media sector.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For decades, brand growth was fueled by buying attention through mass media, celebrity endorsements and large-scale campaigns designed to capture audiences.
    — Felicity Fellows, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Fewer Americans have confidence in newspapers, television, and other forms of mass media than ever before.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • While the advent of mass media accelerated the public’s interest in First Family weddings, the fervor of social media has spiked that to new heights.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 26 June 2026
  • Pop art represented a midcentury shift from fine art and abstract expressionism to pieces that embraced elements of advertising, mass media and consumerism.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Gallup reported in 2025 that trust in mass media had dropped to 28%, with Democrats remaining far more trusting than Republicans.
    — Larry Clifton, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • Traditional mass media outlets have for some time been at the forefront of disseminating science information to nonexpert audiences.
    — Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
  • The telephone became mainstream, newspapers and mass media rapidly expanded and the Wright brothers achieved the first successful airplane flight in 1903.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
  • Most traditional mass media outlets ascribe to the one-way dissemination model of science communication.
    — Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
  • Customer relationship management databases have become an asset for the analysis of customer behavior in the mass media and IT industries.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In these theories, the influence of mass media and social systems is not a constant value, as they are articulated by the conventional or alternative way in which the audiences interact with them.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
  • In the 20th century, new mass media such as radio and television offered politicians a way to address the American public directly, without the mediation of the literati.
    — Jeffrey Rosen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • By the mid-to-late-20th century, mass media helped popularize diets that promised rapid results through calorie restriction or highly specific food choices, such as the grapefruit diet and cabbage soup diet.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 June 2026
  • The vaunted ability of mass media to unify the globe here comes off as a benevolent form of tyranny, of a consensual unanimity in which the bearer of truth gains total attention, total acceptance, and total gratitude.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • As mass media became central to politics, presidents increasingly used public communication to build support for their agendas and pressure Congress from the outside.
    — Stephanie A, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
  • The principal remit of the CCCS was interrogation of the mass media and exploration of popular culture and subcultures.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
  • There is also an underlying appreciation for Black political consciousness and fluidity, a welcome contrast to the mass media depiction of a monolithic voting bloc.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Outside of vocal pushback from artists and studios, AI image, video and music generators have been hit with numerous copyright infringement lawsuits from authors, artists, news outlets, mass media companies and music labels.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Comparisons and Connections With Traditional Journalists Blogs offer a different venue for individuals to counter the traditional gatekeeping role over which the mass media have generally had control.
    — Jeremy Saks, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Fox Corporation is an American mass media company formed in 2019 after The Walt Disney Company acquired most of the assets of 21st Century Fox.
    — Bydavid Schepp, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026

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