How to Use mass medium in a Sentence

mass medium

noun
  • The technique has been around since the advent of radio as a mass medium.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
  • Many of these questions were part of the debates during the rise of mass media.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 June 2019
  • 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
  • WhatsApp has also relied on mass media to solve its fake news problem.
    — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 22 Oct. 2019
  • My development as a teenage fan was fueled by mass media and by other people.
    — Nancy Baym, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • In recent years, his wordplay has become more enigmatic and less overtly tied to mass media.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • What does that mean in today’s world of mass media and political division?
    — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • That was—as far as other mass media coverage—somewhat more positive.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Parents, peers and mass media can all reinforce good or bad views of violence in relationships.
    — Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • The mass media has been mostly co-opted by the ruling BJP to advance its agenda.
    — Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the 20th century, the mass media began to tell those stories to a fascinated public.
    — Nara B. Milanich, Time, 10 June 2019
  • This mass media company is a spin-off of Tele-Communications.
    — Fortune, 1 July 2019
  • Keene said the mass media, TV shows and social media can often dehumanize people.
    — AZCentral.com, 16 July 2023
  • Before the era of mass media, mass literacy and cheap communication, knowledge of the world was foggy.
    — The Economist, 24 May 2018
  • 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
  • The public relations campaign, however, marked a more aggressive approach that sought to sway public opinion through mass media.
    — Shawn Boburg, Emma Brown, Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • At the dawn of the mass media age, Morès already interpreted politics as an art of communication.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Globalizing our heroism The 20th century and its mass media brought more heroes.
    — Rodrigo Cervantes, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Television defined the last half of the twentieth century, outperforming all other mass media combined.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The crackdown has primarily targeted gay men and transgender women, groups that the Egyptian state and mass media do not consider distinct from each other.
    — Nour Youssef and Liam Stack, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Rosenquist honed his skills working as a billboard painter around Times Square and took images from advertising and mass media to create works of surprising narrative depth.
    — Tobias Grey, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018

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