How thick are the media?

[RichardCranium]

The Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is pointing at a countdown timer.

A few seconds with a calculator or a spreadsheet shows it is the seconds until the end of the year.

This is from the Telegraph, FFS:

Google 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button leads to mystery countdown clock

Google has sparked mystery by launching an unexplained countdown that only appears when users press the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on the search engine's homepage

Google has released no statement explaining the hidden clock, but initial speculation that the search giant had advance warning of the end of the world appears wide of the mark.

When we've finished putting the politicians against the wall and having AtW shoot them, how about the media next?

[AtW]

When we've finished putting the politicians against the wall and having AtW shoot them, how about the media next?

That would not be self defence...

[RichardCranium]

That would not be self defence...

Shooting politicians is always self defence.

[NotAllThere]

Shouldn't that be "How thick is the media?"

[RichardCranium]

Shouldn't that be "How thick is the media?"

'Media' is a plural. The singular is 'medium'.

[NotAllThere]

Yes ... but in this context it's referring to a group. One thing. The media. I just checked...

Both are correct. But. "is" is the American usage.