This is a general problem with LA Times muckraking. They do a lot of articles like this, with a single example used to backstop a whole narrative. I'd call it

This is a general problem with LA Times muckraking. They do a lot of articles like this, with a single example used to backstop a whole narrative. I'd call it Tribune more than just LA Times, and I'd note that the single example they use is generally an outlier. If they used an example from the median it'd be a lot harder to get people worked up.