Crapzano: What a tool! And a weasel, too!

Unfortunately, he's admitted he's had offers to go to much larger papers and into areas where there is a lot more to write about, but he turned them down because he enjoys living here and thinks the Blazers, Ducks and Beavers give him enough to talk/write about.
I guess you'd have to hope for someone like ESPN, Yahoo or CNNSI to want to hire him.

 

That's exactly the problem though... it's just lazy "journalism" followed with a "who cares? people are paying attention."

Great

It's sad that's become the rallying cry for the new media. And it is. And it's the excuse they dish day after day because they aren't good enough to generate conversation without going in the gutter or being disingenuous.

 

Yeah, right. I believe that as much as I do that he's a CBA expert.

 

With the whole journalism industry going in the tank, and newspapers failing and going bankrupt, that's what we get. Not lazy journalism per se (unless you're Canzano), but trying to create controversy and drawing attention to your paper to sell more papers and advertising. Controversy sells these days.

Not saying it's right, but papers are desperate to stay afloat just like any other business or industry in this economy. That's why you see more newspaper guys doing other media like Canzano doing the radio, and shows like Around the Horn and PTI featuring newspaper columnists.

 

I guess I don't understand your point.

We have now heard 2 journalism majors tell us not to be so hard on him, he's only doing what he was hired to do... which is according to both of you... wind people up.

He's participating in destroying the medium... which apparently is ok because it leads to money for.... someone... or him.... or.... advertisers.

Wow, that's great. I guess it's all worth it then.


He's simply getting criticized for being a shitty columnist. It doesn't matter if he's only doing it to justify the ends... that still makes him and others like him a shitty columnist who will be told "You're a shitty columnist"

He's someone who's not talented enough to get people to read him unless he causes controversy.

That is what you call... A hack.

I'll bet you a year of his salary he's exactly the type of writer he swore he'd never become when he was in college.

 

Well, it is a blog...

 

I didn't say not be hard on him. When did I say that? He gets paid to give his opinion on issues, he wants you to argue with him. And he's found it more to be successful to play devil's advocate and roll with it.

Well, advertising dollars are what pays to keep newspapers alive. You think the 50 cents an issue pays to operate a business? Newspapers are a business just like any other business. It's not here for free just for your enjoyment.
Without it, you get no revenue to pay for reporters. Without reporters, you get no local news. Without no local news, you get no local Blazers beat writers who follow the team. If you don't want that, then that's fine.

That's your right to call him a shitty columnist. I don't give a crap. Call him whatever you want. If he didn't have talent though, he wouldn't be employed by The O, and Paul Allen wouldn't have contracted him to be a radio host on his own radio station in his primetime slot.
Just for the record, I'm not defending Canzano's opinions on issues, which I think sometimes are stupid. And I even said earlier that when he tries to be a reporter and talk about cap issues, he looks ignorant. He's best when he just sticks to trying to give opinions.

If you think it's best that he leave and be fired, don't read him, don't read his blog, stop clicking links to his articles and stop talking about him. Email The O and Rose City Radio and tell them you hate him and don't want to see him anymore.

Go Blazers.

 

Wait till you get to the real world of journalism, good sir.

It's a whole new ballgame.

 

I don't read him. And not out of any sort of mini protest either. I just don't believe even he believes half the stuff he writes which is boring to me. That's a pointless exercise for both of us.

I have no interest in him and don't listen to him either...

However, I am kind of pissed the Oregonian doesn't have a decent sports opinion columnist that I enjoy reading.

That's what bothers me. Not Canzano himself.

My point is clear though. His defense can not be "Just keep reading that's what I'm paid for"

Thats absurd and embarrassing.

And it's an excuse we hear time after time.

 

Understandable. And I agree with you that it'd be nice to have a columnist that doesn't have opinions that try to piss on the Blazers time to time.
And I apologize if I was sounding harsh or anything, I'm just in the business myself and feel like I have to defend it sometimes. But Canzano doesn't make it easy when he gets the simplest of facts wrong like the RLEC thing.

edit: And it's probably why the only guys with differing opinions are journalism majors. haha.

 

Well, I'm not a journalism major, but having spent seven years in sports journalism, in radio, online, and print, I might be able to provide a little insight.

Online journalism is a weird entity. When you write an article in print, there's no do-overs. You can't call-back every paper that was delivered that morning. The best you can do is write a retraction the next day, clarifying your point and explaining the mistake. Since this article didn't appear in print (from what I understand), and he only posted it online, then he can happily go back into the database and edit that sucker.

Was it bad form? No. It's better to correct wrong information, rather than let it stand. Should he have taken the blame? Yes.

If you write an article that has an error in it, which I have done in the past, you write a retraction. If you were given bad info, you say "I was given bad info," if you didn't do the proper research, you suck it up and take the heat. Period.

I'm not sure if he changed it again, because I don't see where he blames the Blazers for his bad journalism. All I see is this;

 

Well you've hurt my feelings, that's for sure.

I will try to move on from this.

 

If you are a "strong journalism major" and you support the ethics of Crapzano, and you don't understand how completely idiotic his reporting was on this issue, you should strongly think about changing your major.

Maybe "Used Car Salesman 101" would be a good major. Or politics for that matter.

 

It was done in the comments sections, where he did a reply to someone, and then said something about not getting the correct info from the Blazers. Yeah, right, blame it on Blazers.

He may have changed that by now, though, too.