Metropolis. Wednesday afternoon. Lois Lane is in TROUBLE?
Clark! Jimmy! HELP!!!
Lois! What’s wrong?!
This story. It’s–it’s UNMEMORABLE! Now I’ll never be a newsroom star!
SOB!!!! All I ever wanted was an occasional lunch with Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters! Maybe a name check in Liz Smith …
You could try calling a few more sources and–
SOURCES?! Hah! This looks like a job for …
Jayson Blair and the League of “Imprecise” Journalists! Roll call:
Stephen Glass! Janet Cooke! R. Foster Winans! Mike Barnicle! Doris Kearns Goodwin! The late Stephen Ambrose!! Wait, you two are historians! Clifford Irving! Quit shoving!
Take this: a well-reported, stylishly written clip from a Middle American newspaper no one in Metropolis reads. You may find it … useful!
Lois! In the name of Romenesko, DON’T!
Hah! Your puny J-school ethics are no match for THIS!
ARGHHH! Can’t … maintain … proper … opprobrium …
Does he know MY secret? That I cooked those quotes in the Lex Luthor profile?
Next: Clark and Lois face trial by unedited fury in THE WRATH OF THE BLOGOSPHERE!
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