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Abstract
This narrative analysis explores the juxtaposition of local crime news in Omaha, Nebraska with coverage of local troops embedded in Afghanistan in April 2011. It argues that narrative devices such as scene-setting, characterization, sourcing, and the use of dramatic elements constructed violence abroad as heroic and expected, but disruptive and dangerous at home; these contrasts worked to sustain a dominant ideology of institutional superiority.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author thanks Michael Bourk, Maria Rosa Collazo, Frank Durham, Gigi Durham, Kelly Giese, and Juliet Pinto for their readings and input.