u/Fando1234

Just to be clear, I'm not making some sweeping statement that all news media is inherently bad. The statement id like critiqued is that... on net, most modern news media, which comprises of:

- 24 hour rolling news.

- hyper partisan papers and outlets.

- 'fast journalism'.

- click bait articles.

- news site social media channels.

Is a hindrance to decent politics.

Whilst in pockets great journalists are doing great work. The majority of content produced is a form of warped entertainment, more interested in outrage induced engagement, than in the truth seeking.

Much of it is either rushed and poorly researched, or outright lies and lies by omission.

The stories followed are not chosen by how important they are, but instead by how many clicks they can garner. Meaning much of the news cycle massively over index's on divisive stories that aren't that important, Vs real issues that may seem nuanced or slow burning.

An example would be the various soap operas in party politics, which can often become headline news, whilst serious global and economic issues are pushed to the back pages or not featured at all.

This system then incentivises politicians to focus time and energy on these non-issues, instead of the ones that are actually going to affect us or fix our countries.

The natural biproduct is a class of politicians being elected who are exclusively concerned with optics, and completely ill informed about the actual problems facing the economy, the environment, health systems, geopolitics etc. Instead they only speak in overly simplistic slogans and divisive rhetoric that the media landscape rewards.

I was having a chat with some friends over breakfast and they'd recently been to a planetarium show on dark matter.

But despite one of them being a phycisist (and a good one), we couldn't get our heads around what it might actually be like.

I know there's a lot of unknowns, but is assumed to be everywhere (as in here on earth, in my hand, the table etc), is it only between stars, or only between galaxies, does it have a form... As in, even though it doesn't interact with light, if I flew my spaceship into interstellar space would I bump into it? Could you hold a lump of it in your hand?

- Full English breakfast

- Cornish pasty

- Beans on toast

- Toad in the hole

- Steak and ale pie

- Fish and chips

- Bubble and squeak

- Sunday roast

- A good British curry (I'm half Indian and Currys in Britain are sufficiently different that I think the British Indian contingent can claim them).

If you don't know what any of these are, you're missing out.

Yes it's a culinary celebration of beige foods, but beige doesn't mean flavourless. These are great, hearty, homily dishes that people in the US would love if they adopted them.

That being said, maybe you think we deserve our status as having 'infamously bad food' or you think Americans wouldnt like these. Curious to know your thoughts.. cmv.

Edit: also wanted to add haggis neeps and tattys, I'm also half Scottish so can't overlook that!