Question

how you know that media is not independent

Answer 1

Control over media by the government in the form of censorship.Media being controlled by business houses who provide revenue to the media through advertisement.

Answer 2

when media is not independent 
> they will support the government.
> faults of the government will not be known
> we may not know what is going around us
> we all would blindly believe that government is doing good to us there are no negativity with them
> we cant analyse whether the government is doing good for the people or cheating the people