Really nice guy too. When he first took the job, he and I had a long talk after the training camp out in McMinnville. Very knowledgeable.
I personally do not agree with this statement. In this day and age, really good writers CAN be found online. Sorry, but most people can see the writing on the wall. If you are an aspiring journalist, why would you want to get into print, when print is so obviously becoming obsolete? The Chicago Sun-Times just declared chapter 11 for pete's sake. Also, I constantly found grammatical errors and false information in articles published in newspapers around the country while I was working for ESPN Insider. Great writers my ass. Sure, there's some really quality guys working out there, but just because someone is working for print, doesn't mean they are the cat's pajamas.
Yeah sorry, I don't buy that only great writers get hired to write for papers. That's like saying only great editors get hired by newspapers to edit their great writers - I think we have seen over the last several years from The Oregonian and The Portland Tribune sports sections alone that this assumption isn't true at all.
That's a good point. It's definitely odd that Canzano keeps that "Few is coming to Eugene" going. He seems to have a hard time admitting he's wrong.
Canzano is the kind of guy who corrects his blog and online articles without mentioning what he corrected and why it was corrected. It's pretty embarrassing considering the numbers of times he's corrected things without nary a word.
This sucks, this means we are stuck with his ego for many years. If the voters read his regular columns there is no way he would have won. It's like watching a highlight video that makes draft picks look like the next Michael Jordan, but watch the entire game film and you soon realize how average the player is.
Look amigo, I know a little bit of what I am talking about. I have written an online column for USATODAY for a dozen years and have written 15 books. Newspapers are going out of business because they present news that is a day old, because of Craigslist, because of Google, NOT because of their writers. My point is, of course you can find great writing online - that is how I make my living - but blogging usually isn't that place. Successful blogs can be well-written, but more often they are just inflammatory. There are no editors and no standards for most blogs. Again, anyone can blog, just like anyone can have an opinion, that does not mean they are written well. And by the way, I blog too - for Huffington Post, etc., but just because someone blogs, it does not mean they can write. Maybe they can, but not all that often.
I really don't consider any of those shows to be "news" shows, and O'Reilly, when I watched him, seemed to be more interested in selling his book than in having a thoughtful discussion of the issues. Same goes for all of the others in the genre as well.
