There is no TRUE democracy without valid & factual information being reported that isn't pushed by someone else's hidden agenda. Current mainstream media are still part of the problem not yet the solution. The world as we know it will be better if most journalists & medias would be allowed to do their work with integrity & conscience. As an example of mainstream media creating a bias, pushing specific candidates, using rigged polls & other immoral actions. Just look at the damage caused by FOX News (property of Rupert Murdoch) over the years : misreporting of wars, bias towards G.W. Bush, destroying anyone's credibility who is anti-war, lying consistently, etc. Even other major news channels are no better : look at their treatment of the republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. There is almost a media blackout on him not only in the United States but in Canada & other Western countries as well. At least, social medias & Youtube are the new alternatives & paradigms that challenges the MSM control over what people should THINK or perceive their world to be. To think independently for ourselves requires listening to many different perspectives, doing our homework & research dutifully, etc.