Huh! A TV Interviewer just asked "Is that a Red Herring or is something fishy going on?" What about that eh

Question

What do you think of the questioning these days by overpaid TV people? And where did the phrase 'Red Herring" come from?

'Has anyone here been Raped and speaks English?" is my favourite (bad) example of TV Reporter questioning.

Answer 1

how language changes these days.

Answer 2

A "Red Herring" is a plot device intended to distract the veiwer from a more important event in the plot, usually a twist ending.

The phrase originated from a hunting diversion of dragging a smoked herring—which are red—across a trail.This left a strong trail on the ground which hounds tracked instead of the hunted prey.

A red herring pulled across the trail could divert the hounds onto a false path. Thus, by analogy, the phrase came to be used to describe any false trail.

Answer 3

Most interviewers haven't got a clue and resort to "How did you feel?" and other cliche questions. A red herring is another term for a smoked herring and is good for masking other strong smells. It could be used to mask the scent of a fox and draw pack dogs in a hunt onto a false trail. Therefore a red herring became known as being a false trail or clue intended to divert your attention from what was really happening.

Answer 4

Herriing is a white/grayish fish. In a large large "net catch" of these fish sometimes, rarely, there appears a "red" fish which is of the herring species. That is a where "red herring" term comes from. Its a rare event, that for sure is there, but not very often.

Answer 5

alot of reporters have no clue of how to come up with decent questions....it is all about money...everything seems to be down to money now...i feel old now...lol...

Answer 6

Huh! So what about it?