Government control?

As others have stated i really fail to see the issue minus the media part.
As long as the government doesn't control the media and it's an actual democracy then i don't at all see the problem.

Works fine for Denmark.

True, but the trouble is that the USA and Canada are becoming less so democracies and more like plutocracy or Corporatocracy. Dunno about Europe.
Also the government may not directly control the media, but if some of the same ones who control the government also own the media, then that's not much different.

http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens...3-7-14.pdf

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.