Works as a newspaper reporter so that he can hear about disasters as soon as possible

>Works as a newspaper reporter so that he can hear about disasters as soon as possible

So are they gonna change this now that print media is a dying industry and he would be much better served just by monitoring the internet/Twitter?

#justice

You joke, but having a hashtag especially for emergencies that Superman would watch for isn't a terrible idea.

They have. Pretty sure the Daily Planet and whatever company Cat started up is TV/internet based in the New 52.

He should just work for a television station.

Why would they need to change it? Print media is ending in the sense that many places are just shutting down their circulation and going full online but reporters still exist to write those online articles.

>#INeedAHero

I just took it that Clark worked in a general media outlet. I mean, Clark's articles could be posted both online and on the newspaper.

Like, Clark and Lois might write articles now and then, but Lois is most known for being a TV reporter.

again?

>thinking the comic industry will acknowledge the extinction of print media

I think Cat's even was a full blog thing.

It was stupid that he stopped.

He got his old job back because Johns is a nostalgiafag, but then Truth happened and he got fired for conflict of interests. However, Kent was back there again for some reason in the first issue of Rebirth Action Comics.

>The hashtag is quickly overrun by spambots leeching of the popular tag to spread clickbait and porn

The problem is that when Superman was first created, being a reporter was a legitimately dangerous profession. Big business and corrupt politicians didn't want the media snooping around and would often resort to threats, or even murder to keep the muckrakers out of their business. Even in Superman comics today, Lois and Clark getting into trouble in their dogged pursuit of the truth is a huge trope. So making Clark a blogger doesn't really translate properly.

It's not as though newspapers don't exist today, so I'm honestly fine with keeping Lois and Clark as newspaper reporters and handwaving the whole thing.

If you actually read any comics you'd know Clark hasn't worked for the Planet in like five years, he's a freelance writer with a website.

And newspapers are still a pretty big deal.

I could swear that Clark was a news anchor at some point.

>If you actually read any comics you'd know Clark hasn't worked for the Planet in like five years, he's a freelance writer with a website.
That's for New52 Supes. It'll probably be retconned back.

It's an on and off thing, but OP probably shouldn't act as if it's something that was never addressed

He was, in the seventies. Back when Morgan Edge owned the Planet.

You guys do know that there are badass pages to follow on Facebook called Superman, Champion of the Oppressed and Satan that are pretty much exactly what it would be like if Clark and Superman used soc media? There's Lois and Luthor pages that are run by the same people I think. Come on Sup Forums you aren't still thinking of comics as the only medium for superhero stories are you?

Buzzfeed author Clark Kent.

Nobody could monitor twitter and remain as altruistic as Clark is.

Dudes, it's been ages since Clark Kent worked as a reporter in order to hear about disasters as soon as possible. He has bullshit super hearing and who knows what sort of surveillance equipment at the fortress. Acting as a reporter would be the least efficient way of doing that.

He works as a reporter because he wants to be a reporter. It's another way of helping people.

I want Josh Coyle to return

When will Clark Kent become a wacky youtube eCeleb who reviews old video games?

>implying Superman would use twitter

>Reading New 52 Superman

He also genuinely enjoys writing. It's not only the helping factor.

>Implying he doesn't.

print media was a dying industry when the character was new

it just didn't know it was dying and there weren't endless op-eds about it

>using the edited picture

>yellow lantern shirt
This really bothers me. Aren't yellow lanterns like space terrorists, so wouldn't somebody selling or wearing one be like supporting space isis?

They just know that there's two of them hanging out with Superman.

In Injustice, Sinestro sides with Superman. Wearing a Sinestro tshirt would be like wearing a Superman tshirt.

Also, the Sinestro was at first like space terrorists, but what Sinestro wants them to be are space cops like the Green Lanterns except using fear as their weapon to avoid Green Lantern incompetence.

>That Hal line

God damn Hal.

Read a fucking tabloid sometime. At least skim the headlines while you're buying juice at the market. Fuck.

>5 Weird Tricks To Disguise Yourself IRL
>Top 50 People Who Are Definitely NOT A Superhero

at first I thought about him being one of those photographers that usually get set out by corporations like AP or Getty to take photos of crime scenes or natural disasters
but then i remember being a photographer is Spiderman's normal job

He'll work for buzzfeed and make lists of the top 10 supervillain disasters.

Sinestro Corps just saved Earth a few months back with half the Justice League wearing their uniform.

For all anyone on Earth knows they are just another branch of space cops.

Internet killed newspapers and so did retarded young people.

If you actually read comics you would know that Nu52 Supes is fucking deader than print media

democrats support isis.

The US government supports ISIS, it's a pretty bipartisan thing really

Clark Kent works for Gawker and releases Superman's Sex Tape to prove he's not superman

that seems risky for him to get that much public attention

What issue of Superman does that happen in?

remember that issue of powergirl where the government wanted a scrapgoat for some super powered terrorist response team or something i forget the details and framed that guy who tried to save that crashing plane

it was a good story but it breaks my suspension of disbelief how could supes possibly have failed to notice what was going on

I like Clark as an author like in Secret Identity. It makes sense. It's a job where he controls his hours. Superman could write a book in a few minutes if he wanted to so it leaves plenty of time for superheroing

>and Satan
Whut

That's a boston bruins shirt you fucking nerd

Please, Superman isn't a Buzzfeed writer.

Superman is Matt Drudge. (Or is it the other way around?)

>not knowing Kal El is Saturn
>not knowing about ways Satan manifests in our reality
>not knowing about the black magic that is DC Comics
oh user

The yellow lanterns have a sports team?

You do understand that news existed before paper, right?

I mean, you and the rest of you (I can't really waste my time grabbing all these ,
, post by idiots that think history is what happened ten seconds ago.

Before paper there were tablets and hieroglyphics - there will ALWAYS be some way to communicate information (e.g. news) to people and there will always be people who collect, report, prepare, whatever you want to call it, that information to pass along.

#ThislookslikeajobforSuperman

>implying the media reports everything and isnt blocked out by the guvment

An internet culture consultant.
A meme expert blogger.
All the news would come to him to get the freshest handpicked memes.

>Kal El is Saturn

Not just hearing about disasters like an earthquake or African genocide.
Sometimes you need old fashioned investigative journalism to get to the bottom of things. An expose on a corrupt company bribing politicians to dump waste in the river, for example, can be better for solving problems in the long term. Then you have the public and the court of law actively putting away these guys, which both has potential for lasting longer than just punching them, and also teaches Metropolis that they don't need an alien god to solve their problems.

That said, are there any good Superman stories that play up his role as an investigative reporter?

Birth Right. Starts off with pure journalism story.

>So are they gonna change this now that print media is a dying industry and he would be much better served just by monitoring the internet/Twitter?

Superman is a farmer now

To be fair the Planet was untouchable because it was one of few papers not owned by Luthor but Bruce Wayne.

This is exactly something that a villain would game once they figured it out.

Wasn't this a plot point in Red Son? That Luthor kept the planet up just so Louis had something to do

Quad seven get confirms: Superman is also Saturn.

You do understand that current bloggers are limp-wristed pussies who face no danger in the execution of those duties, right?

I mean, your idiot ass seems to think that all history is equivalent.

It's not the transmission of information that made his being a reporter interesting. It's the danger he faced, which was largely unique to that period.

Could be a good long running plot.

"And Jimmy Olsen, Superman's teen Forum-Moderator and hashtagger, fights his continuous battle against trolls and spambots, ever vigilant in the replacement of a tag once it has been consumed and made useless!"

You could make it a thing, have him give each disaster a tag in the comic. #5thsttraincrash
#denvertsunami.

too long

#supesjob

except all those bloggers in the middle east and africa and china and india and pakistan and bangladesh saudi arabia etc etc

Oh, the ones who lie about the places they don't go to? Yes, they're very brave.

I've seen a few golden age comics storytimed here about that. Like one where he's investigating a crooked prison warden, so he goes undercover as a convict and uses his superpowers to fuck with the guards.

>not #somebodysaveme

Come on now.

>he works as a newspaper reporter so he can enact social change that he can't just punch away as Superman
FTFY. That was easy.

this was the seventies, when he could build himself a remote tv studio and interview Superman as Clark Kent, live on tv, using two cameras and his super speed to change back and forth between his two set of clothes

>implying young voters read newspapers

Please user, if young voters were relevant we'd have had communist governments across the west since the 1960s.

>Gee Lois, have you ever noticed how we've never see Superman AND Saturn in the same room together?
>I wonder...

So when is he gonna get behind #nevertrump and put his support in for Hillary?

Why does he need Daily Planet for that when
A) His super senses are able to pick up emergencies way faster than they can be reported
and
B) Justice League's monitor duty exists also to do that and through it the rescue missions are far more efficiently delegated downwards to any League menbers that are available

He pretty much already did that whole song and dance back when Luthor ran for president. And it didn't work.

>twitter
Comic about Rick Remender getting beaten up by Superman for being a "Hitler-worshipping rapist pedophile" when?

Or at the very least Trump wouldnt be about to win the presidency

>i want to get raped by muslims

what an odd political view

Tell us more about how THE WALL would have stopped the recent mass shooting by a native born legal US resident.

That's a legit liberal mindset especially on Sup Forums, but I think even teenagers these days hate Obongo and Hillary

His mudslime father and wife knew about his intent and didn't say anything.

Shooting fags is not wrong, but we still need to get rid of sandscum

Why do libcucks disregard the wall when Israel built one that has thus far been hugely auccessful? Is it just because leftists hate Jews?

The dad didn't know shit.

Basically you've got nothing. The man was already a violent thug before he radicalized himself. He was constantly sent to therapists.

Are you legitimately unaware of the bloggers jailed/executed in the middle east? Or are you just being thick for the sake of it?

>might as well not stop muslims because some are already here

Flawless logic. We should have never let a single muslim into America at all. We don't need them

>Why do libcucks disregard the wall when Israel built one that has thus far been hugely auccessful?
Are you kidding? They had a bombing just last week.

Israel is the last people you want to emulate here, all they've done is prolong a problem from decades ago.

「THE WALL」 is to ward off Mexicans, which liberals have already ruled out as "PoC"s after the Zimmerman debacle. Muslims remain their darlings, and the shooting has only made them defend them more so.

Notice how all talk about Omar is about his repressed homosexuality now, not the fact he dedicated the killing to ISIS or that he was Afghan.

Why, indeed.

>I can't read. Please euthanize my worthless carcass.

Daily Planet's been partially or entirely online since Birthright.

Can we agree that mass executions will save the world?

Why would Hal give a fuck about some rich kid with a sob story.