Sentence 1: The media have recently paid a lot of attention to research on other kinds of self-protection, most notably the work of John Lott and David Mustard on concealed handguns.

Sentence 2: The media has been interested in self-protection research.
pick from the following. (i). yes (ii). it is not possible to tell (iii). no
Is this second sentence entailed by the first sentence?
(i).