WHERE IS THE TRUTH?

In Italy there are 6 main television channels: 3 of them are public and 3 are private.
Democracy tells us that information should be completely free from political control, either it is offered by a public or a private society. Isn't it?
Well, the 3 public channels are controlled by a commission which is elected by the government and the owner of the 3 private channels is Silvio Berlusconi, our "beloved" ex prime minister.
You can image what we know about what really happens in our country, you're right: almost nothing!
When Berlusconi was prime minister everybody suspected that information was ill, we couldn't trust journalists, they followed the power, even if they should have followed the ethic and moral rules that their job entails.
Now we know it for certain!!!
In fact, today, the newspaper "Repubblica" has published the telephonic conversations (registered in 2005) among people who work both in the public and in the private channels, during the elections . In their conversations these people talked about what to say and what to hide during the newscasts, and what to do in order to help Berlusconi in winning the election, that, now we know, he lost.
Now Romano Prodi is our prime minister and everybody knows that there are 2 sides of information: the public one in aid of the government and the private one in aid of Berlusconi, so to know more about something we have to listen to both the sides and still know a little part of the truth.
Do you think this is democratic?
Information and political control should be enemies...isn't it?