关于media

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The word media comes from the Latin plural of medium. The traditional view is that it should therefore be treated as a plural noun in all its senses in English. In practice, in the sense ‘television, radio, and the press collectively’, it behaves as a collective noun (like staff or clergy, for example), which means that it is acceptable in standard English for it to take either a singular or a plural verb.

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Media

Ancient country, Middle East.

It was situated in present-day northwestern Iran and was home to the Medes, an Iranian people. In 625 BC Cyaxares united the area's tribes into a kingdom. In 614 BC he captured Ashur and later defeated the Assyrian empire and seized territory in Iran, northern Assyria, and Armenia. In 550 BC it became part of the new Persian Achaemenian dynasty under Cyrus II . Alexander the Great occupied it in 330 BC. In the partition of his empire, southern Media was given to the Macedonians and then