Rob Hackney Rob Hackney
RH-0790 · Comedy · 2026.07.14.00:23

Legitimate Journalism

Legitimate Journalism
Mockumentary · Investigative ParodyOngoing · 7 investigations so farWriter · Producer
Solar Storm Press · Comedy

Hard-hitting, deeply unqualified investigative journalism into the stories nobody asked to have covered.

FormatMockumentary anthologyIPLegitimate JournalismRoleWriter · Producer
The Premise

Investigative journalism first, comedian second

A shared house style across every deadpan “investigation” — the beats of a true-crime docuseries, aimed at subjects that never deserved the treatment.

Legitimate Journalism is the umbrella for every investigation conducted with total sincerity and zero actual justification for its own seriousness — from a five-part probe into the meat industry’s darkest supply-chain secrets, to an infomercial rediscovering food’s ancient “third state,” to an important film about a tree. Every entry opens with the same straight-faced commitment to the bit, and never once breaks it.

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All investigations

Team Meat 1/5

The Philosopher’s T-Bone

A ground-shovelling investigation into meat alchemy begins.

Team Meat 2/5

Hunger for Power

Part two digs into who really controls the supply chain.

Team Meat 3/5

Meat Industry Whistleblower

A source inside the industry finally agrees to talk — on the record, mostly.

Team Meat 4/5

Still Waters Run Brown

The investigation follows the trail to its murkiest, brownest waters yet.

Team Meat 5/5

Excommeatication

The wrap-up on a five-part investigation into hidden meat science.

Investigation

Age of Succulence

A mockumentary infomercial revealing food’s hidden “third state” — an ancient art obscured from common “shitwits” for generations.

Investigation

Arbor Day

Billed, without a trace of irony, as “an important film.” Judge for yourself.

Ongoing — new investigations as new subjects fail to deserve them.

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