On par with Nadins rag.
It's pathetic, but unfortunately it's all we got.
For more than 100 years, there were two institutions that unified Nebraskans--the college football team and the
Omaha World-Herald, which until recently circulated (home-delivery) in seven states.
Now it's down to just the eastern third of Nebraska, and the western fourth of Iowa.
Its demise started about the same time the newspaper announced it was going to become "more moderate"--this, when it'd several years before already gone slightly left-of-center. Squishy writers, "nice" news, the whole bit.
It's so "moderate" that the last time he was up for re-election, the
Omaha World-Herald endorsed the ultra-liberal U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
It's a far cry from the days when the newspaper stood firm and had courage, being one of only four major newspapers in the United States (the others being the
Oakland Tribune, the
Los Angeles Times, and the
Cincinnati Enquirer) to endorse Barry Goldwater for president in 1964.
It's pathetic that the
Lincoln Journal-Star, a much much smaller newspaper--but the second-largest in Nebraska--with fewer resources, does a better job, its columnists and editors pretty much top-notch and its news coverage less biased, despite it being somewhat Democrat.