Smallville, journalism and the Metropolis Inquisitor

On Smallville Lois has received a lot of flack from certain portions of the fandom about her job at the Inquisitor. Yes she now has a desk at the Daily Planet but some people keep harping that she got her start at the journalism equivalent of bird cage liner rather than a respectable paper like the Smallville Ledger.

The Inquisitor has had its share of questionable stories (the Chupacabra, really?) but I don't feel that slight Weekly World News allusions that S6 and early S7 gave it are entirely representative of what the Inquisitor is in the fictional world of Smallville.

( Over the years there have been slightly different variations of what the Inquisitor was supposed to be. )