Part of the problem is the 24 hour news coverage, more and more people who need only be attractive and report what others have said. The epitome of this is reading 'tweets' as if they were news.

There seems to be no substantiation of what those people have said; no ability to research to validate what is said. The reporting then becomes nothing but opinions being aired, not news.

Some of the problem can be attributed to 'experts' that seemed to focus more on the complexity of the problem than using their expertise to remove the haze so that their bosses, our leaders could understand the full issues. It seemed that their standing elevated as only they 'knew' the full depth of the issue. That coupled with urgency caused our so-called leaders to make decisions based upon perception rather than fully deliberated facts i.e. the TARP. Then from there on its finger pointing time and point making by voting "no", playing no role in the problem. Just as we were lied into the war in Iraq. Where was the pay-back for that? we were encouraged to focus on what lies ahead not what happened. So much for learning from history. A monster such as this country is, cannot be run by laymen. What would happen if these bozos were running a locomotive? We need 'engineers', people with more savy than the savy it takes these days to be a politician. 1. Publicly funded elections 2. responsible lessors of the People's airwaves. Apply that catalyst and see how this country changes in short order.