preconceived notion

“I had all these preconceived notions growing up in the church. They’re perceived as a threat, you know, their lifestyles.”

"I wanted a character that was not going to be pigeonholed by preconceived notions about what I can or cannot do," she said.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh related that Straussians filled the Pentagon’s ad hoc Office of Special Plans, and had bulldozed the government’s intelligence agencies in order to cherry-pick dubious evidence to fit their preconceived notions.

But the panel found no evidence that the jury pool had any preconceived notions about Webster, “or even knew who he was.”

Fewer and fewer companies own more and more of the media outlets, independence is waning and as a result, the news business is just a cash grab built around knee-jerk reactions and preconceived notions.