Superman Movieverse Forum

Perry needs to have the hotel manager's confirmation, along with photographic proof (via Jimmy and his camera) that the hotel room the Kents/Kings were in was not the hotel room Superman was shown flying into (and not even the same hotel, as Clark pointed out)...
and then Perry (or Bruce) can sue Alice Burns and the news agency (or station) she works for for slandering the Kents and the Planet's reputation.

Proof that they've been misrepresenting footage and/or doctoring photographs and footage can go a long way towards that.

“Bingo,” Connie Meyers called out from her own desk. Perry waited for her to continue.

“Just talked with the night manager of the Midtown Hilton,” Connie went on. “He has confirmed that Lois and Clark Kent spent the night there under the names of Mister and Missus Charles King. He recognized them from the news reports. He also confirms the video being aired of Superman on the balcony did not happen at his building. In fact, senior management has been on to GNN to get them to pull the video and make a public apology for misrepresenting their establishment.”

“So, what’s the hold up with GNN?” Perry asked.

“Pilar Johnson, Burns’s producer, wants to talk to Burns before taking any action. However, Burns isn’t answering her phone and nobody seems to know where she is.”

“In the meantime, Lois and Superman are left twisting in the wind until GNN grows some?” Perry grated.

“I’m starting to dig into Burns’s background,” Connie said. “Apparently she was low man on the totem pole, covering the dog shows, fluffy stuff. But she was trying to get her foot in on heavier news and may have been bucking up against the old guard over there.”

“Faking a story isn’t exactly a smart way to break into the big leagues,” Perry commented.

“She had to have known she’d get caught,” Jimmy added. “Clark was mistaken, by the way. That video ran six months ago – January fourteenth, to be exact, on Barry Dunning’s show. The Gleasons sued Dunning, claiming Dunning’s people knowingly endangered their child by airing Superman’s involvement in the case. Dunning settled out of court and the details of the settlement are sealed.”
There was a knock on the office door and Emily Douglass stuck her head in. “Sex Crimes just sent us a heads up. Alice Burns was found dead in her apartment in North Bridge.”

“Isn’t Alice Burns the one…?” Polly began.

{SNIP}

“The one who aired a six month old video clip claiming it was Superman visiting me last night,” Lois completed for her. “Connie’s looking into that and so is legal.” Lois turned to Douglass. “You said Sex Crimes was called in?”

Lois caught the look Douglass gave Henderson. The press was not included among Douglass’s favorite class of people. Henderson nodded permission.

Douglass shrugged and answered, “Her producer found her and called it in to the precinct. The vic was tied down, raped and strangled. It almost looks like the work of the High Rise Strangler except, apparently, Burns didn’t swing that way.”

Well, that's ONE way around it!