Mass media

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Mass media are communications media which permit a relatively narrow selection of content to be broadcast to a large number of people. At present, it is effectively synonymous with the mainstream media, although the two are in theory somewhat different concepts – e.g. a mainstream media company (one reaching a large percentage of the potential audience) might host a forum for public discussion, which would then be a mainstream media forum but (because of its social nature) not mass media.

Mass media is essentially the opposite of social media, in which multiple individuals provide input that is available to all the others.

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• 2026-02-05 [L..T] How a Billionaire Dismantled One of America’s Great Newsrooms «Jeff Bezos destroyed the Washington Post. [..] Yesterday, the leadership of The Washington Post announced significant layoffs—gutting the Metro section, firing most of its international correspondents (including a reporter in a war zone in Ukraine), and shuttering the sports and books sections. [..] It sucks.»
• 2025-01-27 [L..T] Moving On from Legacy Media «We will need this "new" journalism going forward, because the dismal truth is that our traditional news sources have sold us out. While they remain somewhat able to report breaking news, they’ve become unreliable narrators who can’t be trusted to tell us either what happened or what it means.» / «So we have to look outside the mainstream – to bloggers, podcasters, and other more tech-forward outlets – to get the information we need. It will be a long slog.»
• 2014-04-01 [L..T] The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood's Exclusion of Women "... we found that the data doesn't appear to support the persistent Hollywood belief that films featuring women do worse at the box office. Instead, we found evidence that films that feature meaningful interactions between women may in fact have a better return on investment, overall, than films that don't."