4 thoughts on “Why Superman Works at the Daily Planet”
In my experience newspapers don’t have dedicated personal editors like that. One person has biases and gaps in their thought process. Editing is largely done through a multi-phase process that gets MANY sets of eyes on any given piece of work checking for many different concerns.
Clark may be ONE of the people that edits copy for Lois, but that’s a professional courtesy reporters commonly do for each other as a supplement to the actual copy editors, and the editorial direction of Lois’s assignments as a whole would be shaped in cooperation between Lois, the editorial board, and Perry White as the final word on the matter.
Clark likely isn’t ‘her editor’ so much as a fellow writer who commonly gets placed on parallel assignments to her. If she’s writing a piece on a shady business leader and their reach into local government, he’s probably doing profiles on the police department personnel under investigation for corruption, and calling out the officers that kept their noses clean and stayed off the take. The two of them probably make a tidy practice of doing spin-off, complementary angle, and follow-on stories for each other which would require them to update each other on their respective investigations.
Clark probably gets given most of small town/farming stories. At first because he was a farm boy from a small town. Now because it has become his niche. This gives him an excuse to disappear out of town for a day of three whenever he wants.
Tell me you don’t read comics without saying you don’t read comics.
This isn’t a “fan theory”, this is what it is. He works at the Planet so he access to all kinds of information. He also works there because if an investigative journalist up and takes off suddenly, or isn’t around for a while, no one questions it. Try being a superhero while working at Walmart, and having to suddenly jet in the middle of your shift because Brainiac is destroying the city for the 3rd time this month!
This isn’t a “fan theory”, this is what it is. He works at the Planet so he access to all kinds of information. He also works there because if an investigative journalist up and takes off suddenly, or isn’t around for a while, no one questions it. Try being a superhero while working at Walmart, and having to suddenly jet in the middle of your shift because Brainiac is destroying the city for the 3rd time this month!
In my experience newspapers don’t have dedicated personal editors like that. One person has biases and gaps in their thought process. Editing is largely done through a multi-phase process that gets MANY sets of eyes on any given piece of work checking for many different concerns.
Clark may be ONE of the people that edits copy for Lois, but that’s a professional courtesy reporters commonly do for each other as a supplement to the actual copy editors, and the editorial direction of Lois’s assignments as a whole would be shaped in cooperation between Lois, the editorial board, and Perry White as the final word on the matter.
Clark likely isn’t ‘her editor’ so much as a fellow writer who commonly gets placed on parallel assignments to her. If she’s writing a piece on a shady business leader and their reach into local government, he’s probably doing profiles on the police department personnel under investigation for corruption, and calling out the officers that kept their noses clean and stayed off the take. The two of them probably make a tidy practice of doing spin-off, complementary angle, and follow-on stories for each other which would require them to update each other on their respective investigations.
Clark probably gets given most of small town/farming stories. At first because he was a farm boy from a small town. Now because it has become his niche. This gives him an excuse to disappear out of town for a day of three whenever he wants.
Tell me you don’t read comics without saying you don’t read comics.
This isn’t a “fan theory”, this is what it is. He works at the Planet so he access to all kinds of information. He also works there because if an investigative journalist up and takes off suddenly, or isn’t around for a while, no one questions it. Try being a superhero while working at Walmart, and having to suddenly jet in the middle of your shift because Brainiac is destroying the city for the 3rd time this month!
This isn’t a “fan theory”, this is what it is. He works at the Planet so he access to all kinds of information. He also works there because if an investigative journalist up and takes off suddenly, or isn’t around for a while, no one questions it. Try being a superhero while working at Walmart, and having to suddenly jet in the middle of your shift because Brainiac is destroying the city for the 3rd time this month!