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We're too quick to judge...

I love being able to check out different news sources, research, and fact-check at any point in the day with little to no problems. It's nice having so much information at one's fingertips. Yet with this bundle of information comes a bundle of misinformation and eye-grabbing headlines of yet concluded stories, which has seemed to lead to progressively more people judging others too quickly. Just in the past couple days or so, I've seen these headlines: "FBI raids Jared Fogle's home in child porn case," "Florida State quarterback punches woman at a bar," "Phil Mickelson won't talk gambling case," "Is Tiger Woods having an affair with another golfer's ex-wife?," "Paula Deen's brownface flub," etc. Sure, we can all have opinions regarding these stories, but isn't it a little early to conclude about such headlines before the investigations are completed and all the facts are known? If Jared Fogle is ult...