Clark Kent Goes Digital

Entertainment Weekly reports that Clark Kent is quitting the Daily Planet to launch his own version of the Huffington Post.

The embattled world of print journalism has lost one of its most respected voices. In this month’s issue of Superman, crime reporter Clark Kent will leave his job at The Daily Planet, after growing more and more disgusted with the once-great newspaper’s slow drift into corporatized mediocrity and sensationalism. Superman writer Scott Lobdell tells USA Today that Clark has a Jerry Maguire moment, standing up in the middle of the Planet offices and complaining that the lofty journalistic standards of yesteryear have faded into an industry built on infotainment directed at the lowest common denominator. “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,” says Lobdell.