I read an interview with a scientist just yesterday where I had exactly that feeling. Same almost every time they interview someone, could also be politicians.

I read an interview with a scientist just yesterday where I had exactly that feeling. Same almost every time they interview someone, could also be politicians. The questions they ask them are infuriating - infuriatingly stupid. They are told "you must challenge the person you interview and ask provocative questions", but since the journalists seem to have no clue about the subject they invent completely made-up unnatural and stupid questions. Sure, I'm sure that someone out there among their readership may actually have those questions, but that's the fringe 5% of the population. When they "challenge" politicians the main goal seems to be to be as annoying, as possible, as a measurement of how "good" their questions are at "challenging" the person. Even when I dislike the politician they interview, much of the time I pity him/her because not even people I dislike should have to answer such questions. Made-up scenarios like "but what if a meteorite hit that building", questions about things that have a 0.001% chance or less of happening take the center, more often not even the question itself makes sense because it depends on not understanding the subject by a long shot.