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 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 sense '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. The word is also increasingly used in the plural form medias, as if it had a conventional singular form media, especially when referring to different forms of new media, and in the sense 'the material or form used by an artist'： there were great efforts made by the medias of the involved countries ｜ about 600 works in all genres and medias were submitted for review.