Superman quits The Daily Planet – over the state of journalism

His bombshell departure will take place in the latest DC Comics offering,
Superman 13.

Kent is summoned to the office of Perry White, the Planet’s publisher, and
given a dressing down for his lack of stories.

When Kent complains that it has been a “slow news week” he is told,
by Lois Lane, now a television producer, that it is a poor excuse, prompting
him to begin a rant about the state of modern journalism which ends with him
quitting the paper.

“Why am I the one sounding like a grizzled ink-stained wretch who
believes news should be about – I don’t know – news?” he
asks.

His question prompts White to respond with a devastating critique of newspaper
journalism: “Times are changing and print is a dying medium.

“I don’t like it but the only hope we have of delivering any news at all
is to give the people what they want to read and God help me if a front-page
story about some reality star gets them to pick up a paper and maybe stumble
on some real news ” the publisher continues.

After a second heated discussion with Morgan Edge, the paper’s owner, Kent
quits.

Scott Lobdell, the writer behind the script, explained his motives behind
Superman’s departure from the Planet in an interview with USA
Today
.

“This is really what happens when a 27-year-old guy is behind a desk and
he has to take instruction from a larger conglomerate with concerns that
aren’t really his own,” he said.

“Superman is arguably the most powerful person on the planet, but how
long can he sit at his desk with someone breathing down his neck and
treating him like the least important person in the world?”

Asked about where the superhero might next find gainful employment, Lobdell
added: “He is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next
Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw
a paycheck from.”

It is not the first time Clark Kent has left the Daily Planet. When Galaxy
Broadcasting bought The Daily Planet in 1971, he had a short spell as a
broadcaster before returning to the paper.

A spokesman for DC comics confirmed the departure: “This is not the first
time in DC Comics history that Clark Kent has left the Planet, and this time
the resignation reflects present-day issues – the balance of journalism vs.
entertainment, the role of new media, the rise of the citizen journalist,
etc.”

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