The word "mediums" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of spiritualism, where it is defined as a person believed to have the ability to contact spirits of the dead or otherworldly entities. For example, "Many people rely on mediums for communication with their passed loved ones."
Oscar and Olivier award-winning in the same year (1999) for Sam Mendes's film American Beauty and The Iceman Cometh at London's Old Vic, Spacey has conquered both mediums.
You'll need to be adaptable, able to write for different audiences and aware of appropriate tones, messaging and mediums.
"Well, we'd had our ups and downs, sure, and I should imagine I was very hard to live with …" It was while auditioning as host for a TV show about mediums that he first understood his marriage might be in trouble.
All the ingredients that have seen hits like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report in the US become the favoured mediums for the delivery of political information and entertainment.
Artists working in other mediums have a lifetime to develop perspective, but for dancers, emotional understanding, as well as prodigious technique, must be visible by the age of 18 or 20 if they are to reach the top of their profession.
After all, we write data and media, not datums and mediums.
"There are perhaps only around 20 real spirit mediums in Vietnam, but hundreds of fakes," says Mr Khanh, whose centre claims to locate 5,000-10,000 bodies a year free of charge.The Communist government is in a bind.
More quietly, respected types such as Mr Khanh and Mr Thinh have been working with spirit mediums and government officials to find a way to weed out those who are merely seeking to exploit others' grief for financial gain.
But he found that a high-speed Polaroid camera could catch them, and that skilled mediums, sometimes young women trained by himself on his own "doctor's" couch (for ghosts were not all he chased), could channel their conversations.
VietnamNet and Tuoi Tre ("Youth"), two of Vietnam's more ballsy state-controlled publications, have run exposés of fake telepaths and spirit mediums.
Vietnam's bureaucrats still feel the need to meddle in most areas of economic life, but they would probably prefer not to have to differentiate between "real" and "fake" spirit mediums.
