Tees on a ship amid waves around channels? (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
mass media
'tees on a ship amid waves around channels?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'on a ship amid waves around channels?' is the wordplay.
'on' is an insertion indicator (as in clothing 'on' a person).
'a ship' becomes 'SS' (prefix in ship names eg SS Great Britain).
'waves' indicates anagramming the letters.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'channels?' becomes 'ame' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'amid' is an anagram of 'mdia'.
'mdia' enclosing 'ame' is 'mamedia'.
'ss' inserted inside 'mamedia' is 'MASS MEDIA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mass media that I've seen before include "Purveyors of news" , "Agencies of public information" , "Papers, TV, radio, etc" , "Means of communication reaching large numbers" , "Reporters etc" .)