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Mass media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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). |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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. |
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