Assignment 2B

There is definitely corporate influence in news. The corporations not only avoid having the news networks working with them saying anything that might compromise their company’s image.  I read an article called, “Media Undermine Democracy by Speculating Wildly about Undermining Democracy,” by Adam Johnson from a website called commondreams.org where Johnson shows some outrageous claims made by news networks in regard to the presidential elections. He explains that the stories going around that Russian hackers will compromise the validity of the results of the presidential election are almost entirely baseless claims. The reason why news network are putting light to stories such as these is because they know that people are getting into anything having to do with the election because of the presence of Donald Trump as a candidate. If any candidate wins there will be an uproar for recounts and chaos overall because of a story like this. People will believe that the elections were hacked and that will give the news networks more stories to cover on the election well after it should have been over.