See my problem with that is...Chloe in the past (particularly Season 3's extinction) acknowledged that there were people living their lives quietly and not breaking the law, like the mechanic and iirc other people on her master list. And in this episode it was reinforced that they're pretty much all over the place, like Dan, but not blithely calling attention to themselves. I expect it from Lana, to have to jump this bias hurdle, but Chloe has been in contact with "good" freaks like Kyle and Ryan and has seen/heard about people minding their own business while doing her journalist thing (not to mention she believed Clark a mutant himself for several months); I expect her to reason out that she's mostly *finding out* about those that get drunk with the power and call attention to themselves, those that die, because that's *news*. It makes me too uncomfortable that an aspiring journalist can't seem to jump over that hurdle, because although, yeah it's common--all too often people base their opinions of a group of a people on the certain contingent that does outrageous enough stuff to make the news--journalists lacking this awareness is so much worse than a Lana Lang or Joe Whomever. She imo went through a significant arc wrestling with this re: Alicia (who spelled this out explicitly disdain re: how Chloe writes about the "people [she] calls freaks") and Clark, has interacted with benign mutants, is friends with an alien from outer space for crying out loud (who didn't have friendly alien company judging by Namek/Aeythur/zoners, and should reason out that crazy/violent people make the news, normal/decent people don't. For all those reasons, I find Chloe's (increasingly more pronounced) meteor freak issues more bizarre than Lana's and troublesome in general considering her intended profession.