I see GetReligion critiqued The Revealer’s six part narrative on the Republican Convention in New York.

Truth be told, I’d never make it through journalism school, Terry Mattingly used some words and ideas that I don’t ‘get.’

What God Gap? is an okay read. Very New York (inside, hip, now) to someone such as myself.
The piece that hit me where I live though was part 5 - Ballons Fall from Heaven -

All those balloons fell from heaven on Thursday night, right on schedule. On television, it looked like a spontaneous piece of political magic. Hundreds of thousands of protesters couldn’t stop that prime-time television show.

After the convention closed that night, I helped pack up the Knight-Ridder workspace. Around 5 a.m., I switched on the television that I used to watch Governor Schwarzenegger’s speech, tuning in just as the Russian army stormed that schoolhouse in North Ossetia. While hundreds of Garden employees dismantled the temporary media capital of the world, that footage proved that no journalist could ever explain these new kinds of disaster.

Odd that I made a living as a journalist. I wouldn’t last five minutes in a room with Marvin Olasky, Terry Mattingly or Doug LeBlanc. I’ve no doubt we’d all be very polite, but I wonder what common ground we’d really be able to stand on. I’m not an American christian. I don’t see faith and the job as war and gaps.
I’ve certainly had my work critiqued, and it takes a humbleness for Jeff Sharlet to ask for one.
I find Terry Mattingly’s ‘review’ of What God Gap? is not part of a reality I know.
I just went out and did. I don’t use fancy academic words. I don’t have the letters behind my name to run with the guys listed above. I don’t have the right citizenship or credentials.
For what is is worth I mostly liked “What God Gap?” It didn’t tell me what to believe or how to believe it. The six posts just told stories and showed respect to me, the reader; leaving to ponder my own conclusions. Keep doing what you are doing Jeff.

Neo-Cons and Anti-American
I’ve asked Richard Hall to post here when he has time.
I’ve asked him to sum up the discussion a few of us had.
I did send an email to two of the three bloggers I named, and interestingly the blogger that didn’t get an email took time to provide a thoughtful response.
In checking tonight to be sure that the two invited pundits hadn’t posted, I jumped off Patriot Parodox and LaShawn Barber’s blogrolls I thought the comment I saw at Barber’s about bombing Canadians wasn’t funny, and the jumping took me to some very unfunny, opinionated, shrill, religious/political blogs. They are the underbelly of the god-blogs. Maybe I’m too idealistic after all.