mass media

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Habermas critiqued what he saw as the commodification of mass media and entertainment, arguing that a mass-produced culture destroys critical public debate.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Friday, the Thirteenth author Lawson, himself a noted stock manipulator who used the mass media of his era to influence markets and make and lose a fortune, called it “the Wall Street hoodoo-day.”

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Companies for decades relied on mass media and its journalists for publicity, also known as “earned media,” but that avenue has been shrinking for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

But most tend to fade and be forgotten, said Uscinski, who teaches political science at the University of Miami, where he studies public opinion and mass media, with a focus on conspiracies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025

Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos