wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > I don't care what OTHER people mean by the term...I know what
the
> > PROPER definition is...and the proper definition includes the
> > internet.
>
> The *technical* definition includes the Internet,
> along with movies, books, comic books, street signs,
> etc., etc., etc.
>
> > See wikipedia.com and search "media". You'll see that, while
> > correct in your claim that it "usually" means the mainstream
media
>
> Q.E.D. Thanks for confirming my point.
>
> Now say, "Sorry, Judy, I should have realized you
> were using the term in its standard sense and not
> in its technical sense."
>
From: "media" under wikipedia.com:
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"Media" redirects here; for other uses, see Media (disambiguation).
Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the
media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large
audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a
nation state). It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of
nationwide radio networks and of mass-circulation newspapers and
magazines. The mass-media audience has been viewed by some
commentators as forming a mass society with special characteristics,
notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render it
especially susceptible to the influence of modern mass-media
techniques such as advertising and propaganda. It is also gaining
popularity in the blogosphere when referring to the mainstream media.
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Etymology and usage
Media (the plural of medium) is a truncation of the term media of
communication, referring to those organized means of dissemination
of fact, opinion, entertainment, and other information, such as
newspapers, magazines, cinema films, radio, television, the World
Wide Web, billboards, books, CDs, DVDs, videocassettes, computer
games and other forms of publishing. Although writers currently
differ in their preference for using media in the singular ("the
media is...") or the plural ("the media are..."), the former will
still incur criticism in some situations. (Please see data for a
similar example.) Academic programs for the study of mass media are
usually referred to as mass communication programs. An individual
corporation within the mass media is referred to as a Media
Institution.
The term "mass media" is mainly used by academics and media-
professionals. When members of the general public refer to "the
media" they are usually referring to the mass media, or to the news
media, which is a section of the mass media.
Sometimes mass media (and the news media in particular) are referred
to as the "corporate media". Other references include
the "mainstream media" (MSM). Technically, "mainstream media"
includes outlets that are in harmony with the prevailing direction
of influence in the culture at large. In the United States, usage of
these terms often depends on the connotations the speaker wants to
invoke. The term "corporate media" is often used by leftist media
critics to imply that the mainstream media are themselves composed
of large multinational corporations, and promote those interests
(see e.g., Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; Noam
Chomsky's "propaganda model"). This is countered by right-wingers
with the term "MSM", the acronym implying that the majority of mass
media sources are dominated by leftist powers which are furthering
their own agenda.
The more recent term 'Drive-by Media', which appears to have been
coined by Brent Bozell in 1998 [1], has been popularized by
conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh in response to the
coverage of rape allegations involving members of the Duke
University Lacrosse team [2].
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