Job Question and Answer

 I saw this today off Twitter/X, and it relates to a job interview application question....you are given an Elephant, which you can't give away or sell it.  What do you do with the Elephant?

I sat for a while and pondered upon. 

I had two answers in mind.  

The non-Alabama-farm answer is to LOSE the Elephant as quickly as possible.  Leave the gate open....lead the Elephant over to some flea market and just let him wander off.

The Alabama-farm answer is to put up in the front-yard, and charge people $10 to pet 'Marvin' or $20 to ride 'Marvin'.  Put some 12-year old kid in charge, and split the 'loot' with the kid.  

But the thing is...from a Alabama prospective....there just ain't anyone who'd haul off and give you an Elephant.  It's like free cookies or free ice cream, or a free tattoo.  Things like this never occur freely.  

So my true answer is....this is a bogus question, and remark to the HR lady....what kind of dumbass are you....ain't no free Elephant-giving.  

The Thing About Papers

 This past weekend, I was reading over a analytical piece....covering monthly 'guests' of the top fifty newspapers in America.  

So from 2020 to now....the guest level (readership per month) has dropped around 40-percent (14 million to 8 million).

In simple terms?  The dinosaur-media of news....newspapers....are heading toward extinction. 

Reasons?  You can probably lay out dozens of reasons.

Personally, I think three of the big reasons are:

1.  People have been trained to limit themselves to hyped-up priorities by the bigger-media (social media) and the TV news media.  Local news is less important to a majority of people.

2.  People don't have time to gaze over a local paper.  You can figure most papers require 20 minutes to gaze over the front page, the local news section, and sports. 

3.  People tend not to believe what they read or hear....so you make decisions to either mute-hear or mute-read.  

What'll happen in a decade?  I suspect that about half of the newspapers that exist today....will drift down to six pages max, and half of that will be national news 'crap'.