Tough question. It's always much easier to come up with a list of the worst (since the more you notice the referee, the worse he/she was). Unfortunately, there were a few too many times (Koman Coulibaly in the US/Slovenia match, Howard Webb in the final and several others) where the referee was missing too many important calls.
The only referee that I saw on a couple of occasions, but never seemed to notice him doing terribly (and in fact, even noticed him making good calls or not getting duped into making bad ones) was Nishimura Yuichi. I probably took the most notice as Yuichi officiated the Brazil vs. The Netherlands. There was a lot of flopping from the Dutch side and though he got lured in a couple times, I think many of his calls were good (as were some of his non-calls).
The Brazilians were of course not happy, but I thought he made the right call most of the time in a game that was actually tough to call.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.