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Middle Ground Blahs
12 July 2005The NYT's Laurie Goodstein turns in an entirely servicable piece on the growing number of evangelical chaplains in the Air Force. Numbers; anecdotes; academic talking heads -- everything is there, except the life of the story. As a perfectly-excuted piece of conventional journalism, this article is a case study in how newspapers alchemize ethnography into sociology. There are glimpses of close-up and gestures toward the big picture, but Goodstein never abandons the close horizons of the middle ground.
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