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Tees on a ship amid waves around channels? (4,5)

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I believe the answer is:

mass media

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'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'.

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(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" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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