Prepackaged Opinions and Jokes

It's a fact that most people today form their opinions long before that actually have anything close to the full information about... well... anything. And, those  opinions more often tell us more about the person who has them than it does about the actual subject at hand. Now we have reached the point where the jokes  about it are not just written before the subject has even been broadcast, but the opinions were also reached long before things resolved. A local murder up here has people debating a few issues. Is mail theft worth a death?