Passengers under job-hunting

Two passengers near me talked about job-hunting. either of them spoke that an interviewer had asked him what's the top article on the newspaper issued the other day. The interviewer may have asked the question to make sure whether he reads newspaper or not.
But, such a question includes some problems.
First, the kinds of newspapers are different by applicants.
Second, what is important is not the topic but the content. For example, the interviewer should have asked him "Do you know that the computer "Kei" was recognized as the world's wisest computer? If you know it. Tell me whatever you know or think about it."
It seems that people who lack theoretical way to think are company recruiters.