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 sense in English and be used with a plural rather than a singular verb: the media have not followed the reports (rather than ‘has’). In practice, in the meaning of ‘television, radio, and the press collectively’, it behaves as a collective noun (like staff or clergy, for example), which means that it is now acceptable in Standard English for it to take either a singular or a plural verb, and few people are likely to object to its use with the former.
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