The influence of corporate interest

In todays society many companies have an interest to defend themselves. In order to so they usually find a way to cover the public eye by taking the main focus of what they are hiding. I have heard for a while now about this but never tried to look up some examples of it. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/02/04/5-ways-new-media-are-changing-politics in reading this article I seen that in order for companies to make you make you have an opinion which coincides with their interest they push this through bombarding the common reader with social media or whatever form which one would see all over the internet what they want you to see only. https://smartknowledgeu.com/blog/2013/smartwealth-academy/independent-v-mainstream-news-a-choice-of-being-informed-v-being-re-educated/ in this article I seen the major difference of how mainstream news shows you things that independent news sites you would see in a whole new light. this now shows me that in order to get the full tory behind any event one should exhaust all resources to understand what is happening in the world.