This is a Superman comic, but the most unrealistic thing in it is a newspaper columnist getting fired for being repeatedly, provably wrong.

Also, that reads a lot like J.Jonah Jameson picked up another paper, but still stuck with his one trick to drive up sales bleed readership. From 1984, Action Comics #551, "Superman: Friend or Foe?" Written by Marv Wolfman, art by Gil Kane.

Rival paper the Metropolis Eagle was giving Superman a lot of flak, but that's honestly the least of his worries today: Superman just wants to get some medicine, to a couple sick twins. That's it. Accordingly, about 90 other things happen to divert and delay him, like a H.I.V.E. attack, a sinking ocean liner, a hijacked plane, random people falling off stuff, etc. On the tarmac, Afghan terrorists had captured the plane with the medicine, and try to appeal to Supes, who isn't real sympathetic to guys with guns. That was also in Russia, and perhaps Wolfman was just cross-promoting with Teen Titans, but both the terrorists and the authorities wonder if the flying hero coming in was Red Star. Seriously? I know I have some comics with Red Star, but I can't remember him actually doing anything; although here they don't think he can fly but he maybe could in the last New Titans comic we saw him in? (I seem to recollect him driving towards the fray between the Suicide Squad and the JLI!)

Superman gets the medicine, but oh no, it had lost its potency! He has to find rare herbs and spices or whatever, and nearly thinks he's failed after he loses a plant to save more people. Luckily, the guy points out, there's a whole field of that stuff over there. The twins are saved, and the Eagle columnist badmouthing Supes is fired, on the front page of his paper! Ah, if only; although I wonder what job a fired columnist is qualified to do.