Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to television, radio, newspapers, and magazines as the ~.
It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the ~.
...bias in the news ~...
Media coverage of cycling in July was pretty impressive.
N-SING-COLL: the N
see also mass ~ , multi~
2.
Media is a plural of medium .