Is Indian media for sale?

media is needed to play a vital role in a democracy for its smooth functioning. it can works as conduits between the government and public. Indiais a democratic country where representative of the public are elected by the public for the public. the better the election is the process, the better the people will go to parliament. media is only-thing which reminds politician of their promise made earlier. it tells the voter how-many of those promises has been kept. which puts a pressure on the MPs and MLAs for keeping their promises and perform better when they are power.
media sometimes unearthens the loopholes, scandals and weak-points of governments in power and that makes the governments more efficient and free of bad practices as governments have to amend themselves to fix them.
so media is in fact the backbone of a vibrant democracy. so what if that media is corrupt?? Particularly, is Indian media corrupt??
my opinion in this regard is that most of media organization are corrupt and do not understand their role in democracy. most of the media houses prime motive is earn as much money as they can . no matter by what means.
In neera Radia tapes, it was proved that most of media companies , be it electronic or print media , are working for the interest of of the big corporate houses through the PR consultants like Nira Radia. corporates house pay a hefty amount to the PR agencies which contact big journalists like Barkha Dutta, Vir Sanghwi, pay them, make them print and broadcast what their clients are asking for.
Secondly it's a fact that most of big conglomerate lobby for their favorite people in the government so their own interest can be managed,but involvement of media which should be impartial and unbiased is really a very bad news.
Nira Radia tapes revealed it that Nira Radia and its client NDTV 's employee and prominent journalist Barkha Dutta were working as mediator between DMK and Congress to end the stalemate on the allocation of cabinet portfolios so that their favorite A. Raja, who is responsible for biggest ever scam in history of country, can remain as IT Minister. it's really very disgusting and shameful.
will our media ever be as mature it is in western countries??....we, citizens of India, can only hope for it and wait till time answers it