• mangaskahn@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    He’s a reporter, I think he has a little latitude to be away from his desk for a few minutes, even days or weeks at a time.

      • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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        He’s a field reporter. He goes out into the world to write about stuff. If he’s gone for three weeks working on a story, that’s what it takes.
        He’s also super smart and super fast, so he can write the story in a small fraction of the time as most reporters.

        So, as Superman, he flies to where the problem is, solves it, then writes about it as Clark Kent.

        Same thing Spider-Man does, except a big part of it is also getting pictures of himself as Spider-Man doing the problem solving.

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        These types of roles are extremely limited in modern news. They often involve reporting from within active war zones e.g. all the journalists killed by Israel. You don’t just say you’re going somewhere and fuck off the org will want to know where you are and what work you’re doing so they’re not just paying you to fuck about the countryside.