"If it were left on me to decide whether we should have a government without newspaper on newspaper without government I should not hesitate on women to prefer the letter" - Thomas Jefferson Media is the important link between the people and the government. Each and every move of the public is somehow related to Media and in daily life media plays a vital role. In a democratic country like India, the constitution gives freedom of expression and an equal space to each individual. Media always aims in keeping people awakened and it can never be denied that, the growth of media in India is one of the foremost unit of social change in the country. In other words, it can be said that the total public replicates or follows the critics and circumstances through the media. Media plays a giant role in India whereby, it really works as "the watchdog of the democracy" which carry every report of administration thus keeping the public informed about the day today happenings in the country. As the talk goes, bullet loaded from a gun can't change the perception of the human brain but a word or act from the ink of writer can. And here most importantly the ink of a journalist is definitely more powerful than the others. They can start creating the change that the public needs from their end where the media would start a new trend in bringing up the accused to the hook by their active participation. In this article the author tries to bring out the real face of Media, their unhealthy relation with the society and the wrong perception in their minds. What is the role of the media is our democratic country, the outline of the legislation pertaining to media and finally finds if media is really the replicate of the reality?