Apr 12, 2011 · To throw a little grammar into the mix, "media" is plural and refers to all the news media: magazine, newspaper, Internet, TV, radio, etc. Each of those is a news "medium." To me, that's the more interesting part. So, to summarize, "the press" is typically used to refer to the people who gather the news, but can also refer to news outlets.

Dec 29, 2012 · The media are," as opposed to completely on-point matches where all modifies media. The Ngram chart for "the media is" (blue line) versus "the media are" (red line) shows the two phrases moving in rather close parallel over the period 1900–2005, with some relative drop-off for the plural form in very recent years:

Jul 8, 2011 · Many people tell me that the full form of NEWS is North,East,West and South. For quite a long it looked convincing to me as the full form seemed to cover all the direction giving an impression that any thing happened in any direction in reported by the News. After a little pondering however I found that the base of the word may be just "new".

Aug 9, 2020 · media: (the media) [treated as singular or plural] The main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the internet) regarded collectively. This collective term (note that the definition uses the word collectively ) covers all three of your bulleted items, each of which involves an adjective modifying media .

Feb 12, 2014 · This issue is complicated since we hear former Presidents referred to as President Clinton and President Bush on the media all the time; Here's what is the correct formula as it appears in my book Former President of the United States [...] This is the traditional approach for any office of which there is only one office-holder at a time.

Jul 13, 2015 · Yes. Media may be used as a collective noun, but it is also used as the plural of the countable noun medium.. I have noticed that the people who write curatorial texts in art museums seem to prefer the plural mediums lately, but that just makes me …

Feb 23, 2018 · Wiktionary suggests:. even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while. and: Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while: This expression means that even if people are ineffective or misguided, sometimes they can still be correct just by being lucky.

Jan 29, 2015 · Where those contexts do prevail (e.g. established news media), often a style guide will determine whether and where to use inflected letters in foreign names and words. – Dan Bron Commented Jan 29, 2015 at 13:24

Aug 22, 2014 · In the US media, news reporters enjoy saying "the feds" with authority, but this using of a slang term without an agreed upon definition frustrates me. Let me elaborate. Speaking as a native speaker, I've heard each of these groups referred to as "the feds": FBI; DEA; most everything else in DoJ, but not everything; IRS

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