It's like Chinatown, the 1974 film noire with Jack Nicholson investigating a simple adultery case that ends up revealing crime and corruption up through the highest levels of Los Angeles city authority.
Only more so. The murder of a couple of gangsta rap musicians points to corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department, a coverup benefiting the then-police chief (who is now a city council member), aided and abetted by an apparently corrupt and complicit Pulitizer Prize-winning music reporter at the LA Times.
With the outcome that the Times bends its trial coverage so the repoter's buddy, a rap music producer, gets acquitted.
Chinatown is film noire in color; Jan Golab's piece is film noire in nonfiction.
H/T: Patterico.
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