So why do we listen to these guys

Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial average was down, again. The reason given for the loss was lower than expected retail sales for last month. Really? Just what did they truly expect? Because people feel better with warmer weather suddenly they will go out and pick cash off the money tree in the back yard? To me it is just another reason to question why we listen to the media at all. They have NO CLUE what is going on. How about the panic that was created by the Swine Flu? Where is the predicted pandemic?