In case you hadn't heard, one of the longest running names in journalism has had it with the turning of news into infotainment under mega-corporate ownership. He's quit his regular gig to seek a new direction. The BBC has a short piece on this: it's Clark Kent.
DC Comics, which publishes the Superman stories, says Kent will walk out in protest that hard news has given way to too many "soft" entertainment stories.
The move has been prompted by the Daily Planet's takeover by a conglomerate.
The publisher has hinted that the Man of Steel might even go the way of many journalists and become a blogger, in an effort to get his views across to a wider audience.
"Why am I the one sounding like a grizzled ink-stained wretch who believes news should be about, I don't know, news?" says a disillusioned Kent, according to a leaked panel from Wednesday's edition of the comic that appeared on the Newsarama.com website.
There's a lot of disillusionment going on out there. Truth, Justice and the American Way
isn't what it used to be.
Of course, it might also be a reaction to the kind of tabloid journalism that focuses on celebrity hook-ups.
Any way you slice it, life in America these days seems increasingly like badly-written fiction with an inane plot and actors struggling to make it seem credible. I'm only surprised Kent didn't make the move sooner. Now if life starts imitating art...
Let me add a bonus here - The Android Sisters perform "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" It's an old flash animation that has an enduring lesson about electronic media.
UPDATE: Just happened to find this classic Tom the Dancing Bug comic through the power of synchronicity. Enjoy!