The videos, not unsurprisingly, often end with a plea for donations to support further investigations into nefarious plots. They are fables posing as journalism, just the sort of propagandistic misinformation that their purveyors pretend to be uncovering. Meanwhile, real journalists are reporting real stories about real situations that officialdom is really trying to conceal or minimize, as a few recent examples demonstrate. Abridged discovered that Caltrans had kept secret the reason for a two-year delay in the completion of a project to improve Highway 50, one of Saramento’s busiest freeways. These are examples of real journalism, not the phony YouTube videos, and the public should understand and value the difference.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 13, 2026 12:37 UTC