[单选题]Because of the worldwide media—movies, TV, CDs, the Internet, newspapers, magazines—everybody knows the same information, plays the same music, and enjoys the same jokes.How might you define the phrase the media?

A.events that appear in the daily news and that everyone knows about
B.the tradition of being in the middle—not on the extremes of possible views
C.the combination of visual, sound, and printed ways to send ideas around the world
D.communication styles include motions, gestures and facial expressions