Superman's career crisis 超人面临职业危机

Superman's career crisis
超人面临职业危机
                
                
转自：http://club.topsage.com/thread-3050294-1-1.html
Summary
30 October 2012
One of the world's best-known comic book superheroes, Superman, is about to have a career crisis. No, he's not hanging up his cape and refusing to leap tall buildings in a single bound - but his alter ego Clark Kent is about to turn his back on his newspaper reporting career, in protest at some very real-world concerns.
超人或将迎来职业危机。难道这位漫画英雄要告别他的斗篷，不会再从摩天大楼上一跃而下？不，遇到危机的是超人的第二角色——克拉克·肯特，他将辞去记者工作，离开《星球日报》
Reporter: John McManus
Report
Any comic book fan can tell you that when Superman came to Earth as a refugee from the Planet Krypton, saving lives and foiling the plots of evil madmen would be his main day job. But there was also the question of how to keep his alter ego, Clark Kent, occupied, and when the character first came out in print, his creators decided that he would be a newspaper journalist. Very handy, if you want to be the first to know about major catastrophes.
But now the mild-mannered reporter is going solo. DC Comics, which publishes the Superman stories, says that Clark Kent will walk out of his job at the Daily Planet, protesting that hard news has given way to too many soft 'entertainment' stories. It's a scenario that real reporters - and their readers and listeners - might recognise. What kind of stories do the public really want - showbiz gossip, or the latest discussions from the UN? DC Comics has hinted that Clark Kent might even go the way of many journalists and become a blogger, in an effort to get his own, non-super views across to a wider audience. But for fans who think that this is all getting a little bit too much like grim reality, don't worry. In a nod to the changing media landscape of the 1970s, Clark temporarily ditched his notebook for a camera, becoming a cable TV presenter. But he never forgot his real calling - saving the planet.
Vocabulary
refugee：person who has been forced to leave their country (in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster)
foiling：preventing
alter ego：secondary or alternative personality
catastrophes：events causing great and often sudden damage or suffering
scenario：hypothetical situation
grim reality：unpleasant things in real life
a nod：recognition
ditched：got rid of