[1] Chaplin was famous in a way that no one had been before; arguably, no one has been as famous since. At the peak of his popularity, his screen persona, the Tramp, was the most [4] recognized image in the world. His name came first in discussions of the new medium as popular entertainment, and in defences of it as a distinct art form — a cultural position [7] occupied afterwards only by the Beatles, whose own era-defining popularity never equalled Chaplin’s. He’s the
closest thing the 20^th century produced to a universal cultural [10] touchstone. Film histories will invariably assert that Chaplin’s mass popularity was owed to the way in which the Tramp [13] represented a destitute everyman. His films turned hunger, laziness, and the feeling of being unwanted into comedy. He was an ego artist, a performer with an uncanny relationship to [16] the camera who spent the early part of his career refining his screen persona and the latter part of it deconstructing it. Many a film critic raises the issue of Chaplin’s actual [19] relationship to the cultural moment of the time — and the fact that his popularity survived several periods of sweeping cultural change. His post-silent films — which include his two
[22] most enduringly popular features, Modern Times and The
Great Dictator — reflect his own attitudes more than the feelings of American audiences at the time. His mature work is [25] deliberately artificial, set in a world pieced together from chunks of European and American past, present, and, in the
case of Modern Times, future.
Ignaty Vishnevetsky A century later, why does Chaplin still matters? Internet: (adapted)

According to the text above, judge a following statement.

In line 5, “new medium” is the same as new means.