Superman's career crisis

Any comic book fan can tell you that when Superman came to Earth as a refugee from the Planet Krypton, saving lives and foiling防止 the plots陰謀 of evil madmen瘋子 would be his main day job. But there was also the question of how to keep his alter ego改變, Clark Kent, occupied佔領, and when the character first came out in print, his creators創作者 decided that he would be a newspaper journalist. Very handy, if you want to be the first to know about major catastrophes.

But now the mild-mannered reporter is going solo. DC Comics, which publishes the Superman stories, says that Clark Kent will walk out of his job at the Daily Planet, protesting that hard news has given way to too many soft 'entertainment娛樂' stories. It's a scenario that real reporters - and their readers and listeners - might recognise. What kind of stories do the public really want - showbiz gossip, or the latest discussions from the UN? DC Comics has hinted暗示 that Clark Kent might even go the way of many journalists and become a blogger, in an effort to get his own, non-super views across to a wider audience. But for fans who think that this is all getting a little bit too much like grim嚴峻 reality, don't worry. In a nod點頭 to the changing media landscape of the 1970s, Clark temporarily ditched拋棄 his notebook for a camera, becoming a cable TV presenter. But he never forgot his real calling - saving the planet.
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