Mainstream media

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Mainstream media (MSM) is a term used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought. The term is used to contrast with alternative media.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Mainstream media”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Luca Conti from Senigallia, Italy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.