He expected college rah-rah enthusiasm. He was repulsed by old grizzled professionalism. He should not be allowed around adults, or at least, be silent at the dinner table.
I like Jason. I had a drink with him before one of the early forum get togethers and found him to be a nice guy. I always loved his "behind the locker room door" pieces.
Bottom line, the media has gotten to millions by brainwashing them to think football is actually a good sport. People will wisen up and see it is the dumbest, most un-needed of the sports out there. Quick is just another cog for the media to throw garbage out there. Stop watching ESPN. Hell, stop watching TV.
My problems with Quick: #1) The guy didn't understand the freakin' NBA salary cap! Not lately, but from 2000 to 2010, every year he would write some article that showed his ignorance of the salary cap and that he didn't understand it. #2) Final game of the 2004-2005 season against the Lakers. Very exciting game. I believe we started Ha Seung-Jin, Telfair, Outlaw, and a couple of other young players. I really looked forward to reading the write-up the next day in the Oregonian of the game. Instead Quick gives a hatchet job on the entire Jail Blazer season. The last sentence of the article states "Oh, by the way the Blazers beat the Lakers in the final game of the season last night" (something to that affect). I lost all respect for Quick when he wrote that scathing article of the Blazers. Yes, the Jail Blazers were a bad team. But to put covering the final game of the year against the Lakers off to the side so you can push your Jail Blazers agenda? No journalism integrity there. So long Quick. You will not be missed covering the Blazers. Good thing there is not a salary cap in college football as Quick would not understand that.
Was never a fan of Quick. He could put out a good article now and then but seemed to like to try and stir shit up so he could be the first to report something big.
Wait, I thought Quick stopped covering the Blazers last year, or was it the year before. Oh, who gives a fuck? I stopped reading the Snoregonian years ago. Although, in all fairness, it wasn't Quck that drove me away. It was the bald headed douche bag. BNM
My mother retired from journalism 64 years ago, after a career at the leading papers in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Bermuda. Plus a year at Time Magazine, where she had a run-in with a famous so-called journalist. Happy 90th, jlprk. I visited her a few hours ago at the cemetary.
you don't blame a sports reporter who resents doing his job??? His mode of operation was to take a single bland throw away quote and extrapolate it to infer all sorts of melodrama while ignoring recapping whatever happened in the game. He forever interjected himself (and his precious feelings) as the central part of his stories. And as someone else pointed out he never showed the professionalism to learn the basic parameters of the current CBA. Being Damon's proud champion was just another reason for readers to shake their collective heads. Basically he came across as a lazy & salacious douche who resented doing his job. Oh joy, he's now covering Duck football. I won't be clicking any of the O's Duck links as I don't want to line this POS's pockets STOMP
This. Repped. If he hates talking to NBA players he should not be an NBA beat writer. If you really hate a major portion of your job and dislike/resent the people with whom you need to interact, it's time to find a new gig.
Thankfully Ducks fans have other options to get our information. Between the fans, the university website (goducks.com) and Educk.com, the Oregonian and the Register Guard have both been pushed down the totem pole in terms of where we go for insight. The Register Guard actually has gone to a paid subscription. So they are completely off my list. I do pay for educk.com but it is well worth it. The Oregonian has some good interviews, but what I used to enjoy from reading a columnist, I now get immediately from better informed fans.(Or from watching the game myself) The columnist is now someone who writes well (i.e Canzano) but does not necessarily know anything about sports. So what can they offer me? They can't even offer me stats as I get that immediately too from the internet. The Beat writer is now just one of many guys standing behind a mic getting sound bites. Their status has been lowered. Their profession is changing.
Good riddance! The last thing readers want to hear about is how some journalists hates covering the entertainers we are interested in reading about. I’m fine with hearing a fair amount of negative reports along with positive reports. Too much extreme on either end is annoying though. I don’t want to hear Barrett talk about how every player looks much improved physically, is about to have a career year, and loves being a Blazer. Likewise I don’t want to hear endlessly how the team can fail, most players poor character and how many of the guys don’t want to be here. Give me a fair look at the positives and negatives. I enjoyed Kenny Vance on the radio he does a nice job of analyzing positives and negatives of the players in a format that is exciting but realistic.
I think its funny the first time I heard Quick talking about his new job he was already complaining about the organization. The Ducks don't give him access to this or that and the coaches are hard to contact. He just expects others to make his job easy for him. The Ducks are smart to limit his access; there is very little good that can come from it. If I was running the Blazers I’d have shut out these guys years ago. Why should the team spend time and money helping reporters write dirt about them?
Quick is a tool, but journalists do a ton of work for little financial reward. It's probably tough when everyone hates you for trying to do a good job.
@magnifier661: Ding dong the witch is dead! @jwquick you won't be missed covering the blazers! #blazerpride I hope he sees this
