The Metropolis Star begins landing stories before the Daily Planet, with Linda King, an old rival of Lois, getting all the scoops, and convincing Lois that she's getting Clark's attentions as well.
The Metropolis Star seems able to scoop the Daily Planet on every story. Lois and Clark cannot discover how, until Clark embarks on a plan to investigate the Star and its publisher Preston Carpenter, a man in the mold of Charles Foster Kane.—CommanderBalok