Journalistic truth is either too expensive or too unpopular to the well heeled to be broadcast or published. It has become customary to have a bevy of pundits exress their "expert" truthiness and call that news...ie opinions that you are expected to believe and or obey.

To become a 2nd tier pundit you must be at least; a Col. or a brigadeer General, a think tank spokesperson, spokesperson for a candidate or Corporation or a media whore for hire to say what ever you are told to say. Cabinate chiefs or the heads of various security branches of the government like Homeland Security all make first tier pundits.
An education at Annapolis or Yale and Harvard used to be prerequisites for punditry but alas...
Punditry classes are now available at Regents University.

The pundits today are speaking the loudest by not saying what we already know. The last engine for our economy, low interest home and property speculation and derivitive sales, has popped like a mega bubble with nothing to take its place.
Engines for the ecomomy historicly have been dotton commodities, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Manufacturing, WW1&2, Korean war/cold War and the War on Terror which is either going to wind down or go ballistic in 4 years.

America will try to raise taxes but in the end, services and jobs will be eliminated from the towns and cities across this land. A new hobo culture will arise and Mexico will look better in comparison as time goes by.

You have said that many of the pundits close to the white house are behaving like rats on a sinking ship. Bill Crystal, Pearle are seldom heard from while Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have new totally sound proof offices.

Pundits may have crafted carefuly spun 180 degree truth in whispers or at the top of their lungs for a long time now.
Now it kinda makes me nervous to hear what the pundits are not saying anymore.