This is written by Danny Schecter of the News Dissector but is so ‘spot on’ I felt the need to share it ,especially since I agree so strongly with it’s perspective.
"Of course, the absence of information, pervasive media misinformation and the spin control exercised by powerful lobbies influences what people know, think and think about. Or, more likely, don’t think about!

It is even worse than that. Sometimes, we cling to beliefs even when they are not true, there seems to be a need to believe, facts be dammed."

"James Howard Kuntsler has been tracking the financial decline. He writes, “The key to the current madness, of course, is this expectation, this wish, really, that all the rackets, games, dodges, scams, and workarounds that American banking, business, and government devised over the past thirty years – to cover up the dismal fact that we produce so little of real value¬ these days – will just magically return to full throttle, like a machine that has spent a few weeks in the repair shop. This is not going to happen, of course.”