medios de comunicacion

2. The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television,
collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed
with Monica Lewinsky for months.
[PJC]

Media Me"di*a, n.; pl. ae">Mediae (-=e). [NL., fr. L. medius middle.]
1. (Phonetics) One of the sonant mutes [beta], [delta],
[gamma] (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in
other languages, so named as intermediate between the
tenues, [pi], [tau], [kappa] (p, t, k), and the
aspirat[ae] (aspirates) [phi], [theta], [chi] (ph or f,
th, ch). Also called {middle mute}, or {medial}, and
sometimes {soft mute}.
[1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English