Or do you think media is independent ?
Yes, they are independent. But sometimes when local politicians interfer with their power they may sometimes be one sided and sometimes bias in their reporting or news but certainly not all, somehow the real news will get on their way to the public.
Independent media existed in the past, but nowadays it is quite hard to find. Here in India, the media is essentially divided in to two camps. In the right-wing camp, we have media outlets such as Republic, Times Now, and Zee News. On the left-wing camp we have NDTV, Tehelka, CNN-IBN.etc. There is nothing in between.