It can also distract the listener or reader from the topic. Some are more interesting but don't actually impact a topic. The red herring fallacy is defined as a person raising an irrelevant side issue to divert attention from the real issue. For example, some people argue that television distracts children from reading their books, but people say that today's television programs are great. They are directed and acted. The TV station is excellent is a different matter. This makes the example invalid because we conclude that the TV station is great, but that wasn't the question. We need to focus on how television doesn't allow our children to read their books. The second statements did not address this at all. In another example, “Understanding and Recognizing Logical Fallacies,” the chapter states that a person had an internship at a government agency last summer and no one worked very hard. Civil servants are lazy. In this situation, we conclude that public employees are lazy, but that is not the problem. We should instead focus on the internship and how we worked very hard on it. So that we can find a solution to the problem rather than talking about the laziness of civil servants. This means that if their work had been very hard, no one would have been