( CNN ) -- Add Superman to the list of reporters leaving the newspaper business behind . In the comic book series ' latest issue , which went on sale Wednesday , an outraged Clark Kent quits his job at The Daily Planet after his boss berates him . `` I was taught to believe you could use words to change the course of rivers -- that even the darkest secrets would fall under the harsh light of the sun , '' the superhero 's alter ego says in a newsroom outburst . `` But facts have been replaced by opinions . Information has been replaced by entertainment . Reporters have become stenographers . I ca n't be the only one who 's sick of what passes for the news today . '' In Wednesday 's issue , Kent tells his editor he 's been a journalist for barely five years . But for decades , his job as a reporter at The Daily Planet has been a mainstay of Superman 's story . Word of the superhero 's career move drew attention from media critics and others who 've watched the newspaper industry 's struggles . `` It seems very overly dramatic , '' said Erica Smith , a former newspaper employee who 's tracked U.S. newspaper industry layoffs and buyouts on her Paper Cuts blog since 2007 . `` It does n't seem to me to fit either the industry or the character . '' If he 'd been laid off or taken a buyout , like more than 2,000 others in the U.S. newspaper industry this year , `` it would have been a little bit more realistic , '' Smith said with a laugh . The proportion of Americans who read news on a printed page is declining , according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press . The center said in a September study that just 23 % of those surveyed said they read a print newspaper the previous day -- an 18 percentage point decrease over the past decade . But online and digital readership is growing , the study said . And it may be that the Man of Steel , when he 's not flying faster than a speeding bullet or leaping tall buildings in a single bound , is taking note . A spokesman for DC Entertainment , which is also owned by CNN 's parent company Time Warner , said the comic book 's writer was not available for comment . In an interview with USA Today this week , writer Scott Lobdell said Kent is much more likely to start his own blog than he is to search for new work in the news business . `` I do n't think he 's going to be filling out an application anywhere , '' Lobdell said . `` He is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw a paycheck from . ''
NEW : This means the product will ship as received by the manufacturer, sealed, with all advertised components, and with the manufacturer warranty. In latest comic , Clark Kent quits his job at The Daily Planet . The alter ego 's newspaper job has been a mainstay of Superman 's story . The comic book 's writer says Clark Kent is likely to become a blogger .