“Rorschach journalism, I think, which I think is like an emergent field in 2026. You know, the journalism where its efficacy is as much in people's responses or lack of clarity or the varying spectrum of how people respond to things as it is in like whatever story it's immediately being told.”
the culture journalist · Media & Creator Economy · October 2026
The hosts discuss a new documentary about a disgraced startup founder and how differently viewers, including reporters who covered her, read it. Domanick picks up her co-host's point that the film works like a Rorschach test.
Transcript
the book on this whole thing. Literally wrote the book.
…Like, she is really messed up, but it really showed how in love they are. And that I can't take away from them. And I was like, what? So it was just very funny to see how people took different things away from it. Yeah. So I think that the film really has like a Rorsack quality. Yeah, it's like
Rorschach journalism, I think, which I think is like an emergent field in 2026. You know, the journalism where its efficacy is as much in people's responses or lack of clarity or the varying spectrum of how people respond to things as it is in like whatever story it's immediately being told.
Might have also been that, or it seems from watching a QA with the directors, they didn't really know what to think either. And that might also be a reflection of that.
Yeah.
Clearly, John Carrier felt that he knew exactly what was going on.