[Husker] huskermax and owh

[Aaron Wolfson]

Also, if you type the headline of the article you're looking for into a
search engine, and click the link it gives you, that should also bypass the
paywall. I've been doing that with NYT articles ever since they implemented
their wall. This way you can use your browser of choice. :)

To the point about McKewon's writing, I can tell he's been more or less
"neutered" ever since joining the WH. Not that I blame him for taking a
better job, but he clearly doesn't have the freedom to write the same
number of words or include the same volume of references that he did at the
State Paper.

He's still a good analysis guy, but clearly the scope of what he's allowed
to analyze has been reined in significantly.

Aaron


On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> After Dirk Chatelain's hit piece on Taylor Martinez, Lee Barfknecht
> responded to Bo Pelini's criticism of Chatelain by saying that they were
> the biggest media outlet in the state, and they were going to write
> whatever they felt like.  Which is certainly their perogative (and First
> Amendment right, by the way)...that doesn't make them above criticism
> either.
>
> I don't mind Jon Nyatawa and Rich Kaipust on their staff, and Tom Shatel
> is usually pretty good.  Sam McKewon is easily the best football writer on
> the World-Herald's staff.
>
> Personally, I think the Journal-Star does a better job of covering
> Nebraska football than the World-Herald with about half the staff.
>
> As for the "paywall"...it's easily bypassed.  Switch over to Mozilla
> Firefox and use "Private Browsing".  It will throw off the World-Herald's
> ability to track how many articles you've read.
>
>
> Mike Jaixen
> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
> http://www.cornnation.com
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Robert Christensen <fourbox at nctc.net>
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Husker] huskermax and owh
>
> Sam McKowen used to write for Husker Locker and Nebraska State Paper.  I
> still like him much better than the hacks that are at OWH, but I have
> noticed some changes also.  I'm sure the guru sports guy at OWH is trying
> to influence his writing.  I still find the Lincoln Journal-Star commentary
> better.  It seems the OWH has the misguided thought that they are "the most
> important paper" in Nebraska.  I think they have slide a long way from the
> days when they tried to report the news instead of manufacture it!
>
> Bob in the Sandhills
>
> On 2/6/2012 9:18 AM, Ken Oliver wrote:
> > Maybe I am late getting to the party, but I just noticed yesterday that
> links at HuskerMax to the Omaha World Herald were giving me message at OWH
> that I had used up my allowed free readings of "premium" content.  Tweets
> from OWH writers with links to OWH yielded the same result.  I live on the
> east coast and I am not going to pay $9.95 a month for the "premium"
> content.
> >
> > I now see that HuskerMax has appended an * to links that go to OWH so
> that time won't be wasted trying to read the "premium" content.  I thank HM
> for this.  You do have to look closely to see the *, perhaps *** would be
> more eye-catching.
> >
> > I am not really fond with several of the OWH scribes, but read them for
> a different perspective.  I can easily do without them.  I hope that
> someone can fill me in on something.  Did Sam McKewon only recently join
> the OWH?  I seem to recall his writing for someone else a couple years
> ago.  At that time I enjoyed reading him as much as any of the writers, but
> it seems his style or tone or something has changed and I have not found
> him as good a read lately.  It makes me wonder if the OWH powers that be
> have been having an influence on him.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >   .
> >
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