0 abbreviation for mainstream media : forms of the media, especially traditional forms such as newspapers, television, and radio rather than the internet, that influence large numbers of people and are likely to represent generally accepted beliefs and opinions:
The best bloggers will be hired away by the hated MSM, bought off with Op-Ed columns and cable talk shows.
Many critiques from both sides of the blogging/MSM divide are accurate, if sometimes misplaced.
The nearly unanimous verdict in both parties, in government, in business, and in the so-called MSM (mainstream media), was that the plan definitely should be approved.
The dam of silence started to spring leaks: not in the ponderous "MSM" - or "mainstream media" - such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and the major TV networks, but in the blogs, and on late-night shows.
