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the mass media
noun [plural, + sing/pl verb]Definition
› newspapers, television, radio, and the internet: The mass media has become one of the main instruments of political change.Media in general
(Definition of the mass media noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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