WPCNR MUCKRAKER'S NOTEBOOK. September 4, 2007: This is the 6,000th article WPCNR has posted since this website began February 1, 2000. To mark this occasion, in the absence of any real guidelines for cub reporters from the journalism schools today – who never teach the simple fact that the most respectable officials and leaders lie to  people and reporters on an hourly basis – and those who think what they see on television and read in the mainstream press is how reporting should be done,  WPCNR is starting a regular feature entitled The Muckraker’s Notebook which will bring the public some of the truisms and sayings by famous reporters of the past, not all of whom ever existed.

 Many of the sayings have been collected by Tom Henderson who is Managing Editor of the Polk County Itemizer-Observer in Dallas, Oregon, who wrote the article, Everything I Need to Know About Journalism I Learned from Superman (And Other ComicBooks).  Our first selection comes from Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane, the nosy, nervy reporter to die for on The Daily Planet. You can see the complete article of Mr. Henderson’s on http://ijpc.org/comicbooks%20tom%20henderson.htm

Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and Perry White in a 1941 Superman Sunday strip, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. (c) 1941 McClure Newspaper Syndicate. From the WPCNR Collection

 “You’ve still got the power of the press, Clark. It’s also more powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet and able to change the course of mighty rivers. If it wasn’t – if it couldn’t help people – I wouldn’t be here. And neither would you.” – Lois Lane