As an underemployed teacher, I tell all my students to not believe every word I say. Well, that's not true...I tell them that I have a bias - we all do - so that what I say or how I structure my class is for a specific purpose. The same goes for all teachers, reporters, journalists, etc. Their/my goal may be to LOOK unbiased, but the words, inflection & style of communication one chooses gives a specific perspective.

Having said all this, it's pretty said that if a person on TV, radio or in the newspaper says something, everyone takes it at face value. Take this for example. Or everything The War Criminal has ever said. Or everything any politician, CEO or journalist has said.

But where does the cynicism end? If you take this to it's logical conclusion, then when someone tells us that he/she loves us then you wonder what's their motivation for it. I sure don't want to live in a world like that (though I sometimes think I already do - which would explain a lot).

On the other hand, not trusting what anyone says sure is a lot safer these days. What's a simple boy like me supposed to do?