On Manipulative Astonishment

The Grab offers more lessons in journalism than it probably intended

Today we’re going to talk about a film I do not recommend—at least, not for content.

It is, however, an excellent case study in journalist and documentarian missteps, so if you’d like to watch the film while paying close attention to its rhetorical strategies, you might find the experience instructive.

Or annoying. Or maddening.

I went into The Grab aware …