_Narrative_

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:37 PM -0400 6/12/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Patrick Corcoran asserts that the [jury-rigged] armored vehicles [now
>being built and used by the Mexican drug cartels] are not
>game-changers. "Whereas the 'narco-tanks,' as the vehicles are often
>called, make for great blog-fodder and provide entertaining videos,
>seeing their rise as a significant escalation in Mexico's drug war
>would be wrongheaded," writes Corcoran. "In the end, the 'tanks' are
>[just? merely? only? none of the preceding?] a sexy _narrative_."
>
>
>What is it that I'm supposed to understand the meaning of _narrative_
>to be, in this context?
>
>--
>-Wilson

"are a sexy narrative" = 'make for a good story' ?

LH

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