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Meaningless in that the phrase is used almost exclusively in the way you use it, and yet you (and others) aren't able to construct a coherent definition. Regard

Meaningless in that the phrase is used almost exclusively in the way you use it, and yet you (and others) aren't able to construct a coherent definition. Regarding your examples, Facebook was a weird choice of authority when viewership/readership are easily researched numbers. I bring this up partially because the only thing that you believe is "media" is news sources but the most popular news sources aren't "mainstream media"? There is clearly something specific you're filtering for but are unwilling to say. Until you do the term means nothing.

AlbertCory 4y ago
Wow, you're really going to elaborate lengths of pedantry here, aren't you? "Please define 'mainstream media' and no, I'm not satisfied with your definition." Why is this important? You could make a list of 100 news sources and ask a random sample of 1,000 people to check Yes/No on "is this mainstream media?" You would get a very high level of agreement. It's not my responsibility to give you a definition you're happy with. This isn't a scientific debate.
- DoctorOW 4y ago
  I pointed out that you've yet to make any attempt to define it and still haven't.
  - AlbertCory 4y ago
    If there's anyone besides you who's confused, we haven't heard from them yet. I searched "mainstream media" on DDG and got a number of definitions. Maybe you could try that.
    - DoctorOW 4y ago
      Your definition differs from the results offered as evidenced by your examples differing from other examples: i.e. of The Big Five[1] you picked on only the smallest, not even focusing on journalisitic enterprises because one of the larger organizations literally called "News Corp" didn't have a single of its publications make your list of news outlets. Curious. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media#The_%22Big_five%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media#The_%22Big_fi...

AlbertCory 4y ago

Wow, you're really going to elaborate lengths of pedantry here, aren't you? "Please define 'mainstream media' and no, I'm not satisfied with your definition." Why is this important? You could make a list of 100 news sources and ask a random sample of 1,000 people to check Yes/No on "is this mainstream media?" You would get a very high level of agreement. It's not my responsibility to give you a definition you're happy with. This isn't a scientific debate.

DoctorOW 4y ago
I pointed out that you've yet to make any attempt to define it and still haven't.
- AlbertCory 4y ago
  If there's anyone besides you who's confused, we haven't heard from them yet. I searched "mainstream media" on DDG and got a number of definitions. Maybe you could try that.
  - DoctorOW 4y ago
    Your definition differs from the results offered as evidenced by your examples differing from other examples: i.e. of The Big Five[1] you picked on only the smallest, not even focusing on journalisitic enterprises because one of the larger organizations literally called "News Corp" didn't have a single of its publications make your list of news outlets. Curious. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media#The_%22Big_five%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_media#The_%22Big_fi...