[billiefan2000]

BTW since some think the OWH is conservative



have a question for them:

is the The Reader or the City Weekly

conservative or middle of the road or liberal papers



and how bout the UNO Gateway

is that a conservative paper?




before we falsely say the OWH is conservative,


maybe we should bring up there are at least 3 liberal papers in Omaha



four if you count that one paper the Nebraskans for Peace folks put out

[2Adam29]

I hardly consider those rags newspapers, but yes, they are liberal. All of them. Basically, they are just ad books with an occasional article thrown in.

The Omaha World Herald is the paper that truly represents our community, that is why I think it would be better suited with a very slight liberal bias, as I believe the small majority of Omaha is made up of very moderate democrats. It's just my opinion. At the end of the day, I don't dislike the World Herald for it's views, rather it's journalistic style. They tend to write more soft news than is nessescary, and in a city of this size, it wouldn't hurt to tell a tale of the impoverished rather than one on the latest cold snap.

[Tmohalloran]

The World Herald is preparing to have the Real Estate Section go away, much like places like Mpls. Star Tribune has had happen. Already CBSHome and NPDodge are only posting Open houses every other week. It will be replaced by websites like 4114OpenHouses.com that shows Omaha Open Houses, and will show them all after the MLS gets the new enhancement that will download all open houses along with the other information they now put in one location. No longer will we have to search 5 broker sites to get open houses.

[Tmohalloran]

The World Herald is going strong with Omaha.com and I think it will survive, but not as we know it. If they don't figure out how to charge for online articles, where are we going to get "free press" information? Omaha Open Houses are going to be displayed by websites like the one I used:Modcut- no advertising please.

[altajoe]

A few pages ago I supported the OWH. Then today, I see that they reduced themselves to rank journalism by touting a headline slamming Alegent for sending 11 doctors to a conference in Hawaii while laying off 350.

Shocking!

The article goes on to say that Alegent had budgeted the trip and made the arrangements 9 months ago, and that any overages from the original budget were paid by the Docs. Any wives that went along paid their own way.

Oh yeah, the article did touch on the fact that these conferences are where doctors get to learn about current technology and implementations that move medical care forward. 11 Doctors who sit at the head of their respective discipline pyramids, thus disseminating the info down through their people. Of course, it was the job of the Alegent spokesperson to point that out.

The OWH apparently saw its role as a mudslinger who hoped to sell what, a dozen more papers to people who grabbed it off the rack because of the headline. So, the OWH increased its revenue by $12 and Alegent takes a huge PR hit from people who don't take the time to read the whole article or are predisposed to find faults.

The funny thing is that Alegent should pull a weeks worth of advertising from the OWH as retribution. Of course, that would result in layoffs at the OWH. Unfortunately, the ones being laid off invariably won't be RICK RUGGLES, the author of the article, or his editor that thought it would be a great idea to run it in the first place. I guess the headline "John Gottschalk and Terry Kroeger enjoy a fine dinner of Caviar and Champagne while the OWH lays off another 38" ended up on the cutting room floor.

While I do see the role of the media exposing true outrages such as execs giving themselves millions and millions of dollars in bonuses despite making horrendous decisions, I can't stomach what I saw the OWH do today.

Oh yeah, the total cost to Alegent for increasing the quality of medical care to us Nebraskans, a whopping $17,600.

[billiefan2000]

Originally Posted by altajoe

A few pages ago I supported the OWH. Then today, I see that they reduced themselves to rank journalism by touting a headline slamming Alegent for sending 11 doctors to a conference in Hawaii while laying off 350.

Shocking!

The article goes on to say that Alegent had budgeted the trip and made the arrangements 9 months ago, and that any overages from the original budget were paid by the Docs. Any wives that went along paid their own way.

Oh yeah, the article did touch on the fact that these conferences are where doctors get to learn about current technology and implementations that move medical care forward. 11 Doctors who sit at the head of their respective discipline pyramids, thus disseminating the info down through their people. Of course, it was the job of the Alegent spokesperson to point that out.

The OWH apparently saw its role as a mudslinger who hoped to sell what, a dozen more papers to people who grabbed it off the rack because of the headline. So, the OWH increased its revenue by $12 and Alegent takes a huge PR hit from people who don't take the time to read the whole article or are predisposed to find faults.

The funny thing is that Alegent should pull a weeks worth of advertising from the OWH as retribution. Of course, that would result in layoffs at the OWH. Unfortunately, the ones being laid off invariably won't be RICK RUGGLES, the author of the article, or his editor that thought it would be a great idea to run it in the first place.


I guess the headline "John Gottschalk and Terry Kroeger enjoy a fine dinner of Caviar and Champagne while the OWH lays off another 38" ended up on the cutting room floor.

While I do see the role of the media exposing true outrages such as execs giving themselves millions and millions of dollars in bonuses despite making horrendous decisions, I can't stomach what I saw the OWH do today.

Oh yeah, the total cost to Alegent for increasing the quality of medical care to us Nebraskans, a whopping $17,600.

the omaha world herald will never fire its columnists





the owh only cares

bout firing those who work in the warehouses


and firing others who have low-level jobs at the company

[billiefan2000]

BTW

the go-section has gotta go


we already have a paper in omaha that is like the Go-section of the OWH paper



it is called City Weekly

[altajoe]

Originally Posted by billiefan2000

the omaha world herald will never fire its columnists





the owh only cares

bout firing those who work in the warehouses


and firing others who have low-level jobs at the company

That's my position exactly. The writer and the editor decided to do a hack job on a local company. That company will/should pull its advertising for a while. The paper's revenue will drop and they'll layoff innocent hardworking people.

[billiefan2000]

Originally Posted by altajoe

That's my position exactly. The writer and the editor decided to do a hack job on a local company. That company will/should pull its advertising for a while. The paper's revenue will drop and they'll layoff innocent hardworking people.

I work at the OWH and I have a chance of losing my job cause I am a low-level employee

Terry Kroger would rather throw people like me under the bus than throw his sleazy "columnists" under that same bus



I BTW agree that That company will/should pull its advertising for a while

and I think Alegent should pressure Terry Kroger to fire Rick Ruggles and whoever allowed that article to be put in the paper.


Kroeger needs to resign, he has been a distaster at OWH since he took over in early 2008




BTW:

the OWH columnists loves doing hack jobs


remember Joe Dejka attacking that tattoo parlor in papillion


or Robert Nelson trying to justify that anti-semitic rant at that Crieghton game

or.... well I could give a lot of other examples

[altajoe]

Billiefan, I hope you hold on. AND help Ruggles carry his personal items out to his car, along with his editor.