Fact: just because the entire cast of Beverly Hills 90210 was skinny does not mean everybody in California is skinny.
Fact: just because you saw on television a somewhat older gentleman informing you that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction does not mean that Iraq actually has weapons of mass destruction.
I am hating television, because it has trained all of us to look at anything in the box and think it MUST be true. It's a sad sort of laziness on the part of the average human being on the street- and in fairness, one I succumb to occasionally as well.