Superman's getting good reviews. Maybe it's because I'm the daughter of a journalist, and once thought to be one myself, but I always understood Superman to be about the role of the press in a free society. Beneath the pathetic desk-jockey exterior beats the heart of a hero, tracking down evil-doers, exposing their plans, making the world safe for truth, justice, and the American Way. At least in the comic books, Clark Kent was the secret hero of the plots --he's the one with the reporter's nose who smelled something fishy and got to the bottom of the story. It was Clark Kent's exposure of bad guys that usually led to a physical crisis for his alter ego to solve. Over and over again Clark Kent saved the world, content never to get the credit, so long as decent people breathed free and lived in safety.
Unlike some people I could name who live for Pulitzers, public safety be damned.
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