Sentence Correction (SC) | Analyzing campaign expenditures, the media has had as a focus the high

Well, actually, "media" isn't a collective noun—or, more accurately, it hashistorically been considered incorrect to treat "media" as singular.

"Media" is actually just the plural form of "medium" (= a particular format in which audiovisual content is transmitted; for instance, FM radio is amedium ).
The plural form isn't "mediums" because it's still faithful to the original Latin—much like "maxima"
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