POLL: Do the readers of BlazersEdge want The Oregonian and 95.5 to fire John Canzano?

Canzano loves Roy. He has said ,over and over, how he is blessed to cover an athlete as humble and gracious as Roy. I have talked to John on many occasions and he is not as bullish and egotistical as many people on this site think of him. I think his column was meant to take a more sarcastic and jovial tone than it did, and it got away from him.

I want to get everything he’s ever written and burn it in a big pile. Yep, if someone says something moderately offensive you should ruin them. We need to let everyone know we won’t tolerate John expressing his opinions in a privately owned newspaper.

He should be fired because he’s not a very good writer, he fabricates stores, and often somehow finds away to insert himself into the story.

It doesn’t matter if a writer is good or bad. It doesn’t matter if a writer makes the fan base happy or angry. What matters is that the writer gets read. And it’s pretty obvious, like him or not, he gets read. Of all the times I’ve seen people say they aren’t going to read him anymore, he gets more play than ever anytime he writes a Blazer-related article. He’s doing his job. He’s getting people to talk about his articles. Which means he’s getting more readers.

I don’t have a particular problem with the guy personally. He writes a far different genre than Quick, or Dave, or Ben, or any other journalist covering the Blazers. He brings people who aren’t necessarily sports fans in to read the sports page, which means the ads on the sports page are seen by more people. And that’s the biggest goal of the newspaper. That means that Canzano is doing his job perfectly in the eyes of his bosses.

I agree with those who have said this is not a nice stand to take.

Hate him, ignore him, but try to get him fired?

Not really cool.

to hear opinions that you don’t agree with. He hasn’t done anything that would be deserving of being fired. Hating him is not an intelligible reason to fire him.

as Canzano himself would say.

he’s very in touch with his feelings.

we did cancel our Oregonian subscription yesterday, but only because they refuse to deliver the paper to the side porch instead of the front porch.

I would not wish any one to be fired, esspecially someone who has a family at home to feed. If you don’t like what he says don’t read or listen.

Opinion and Journalisim are kinda like water and ink…. right?

That this is a minor issue. And he made some points I agreed with, what if the entire team wanted a private moment in the tunnel during the anthem? Why does Roy get away with it and no one else? I would love to see Roy find another time to have that moment, if nothing else, just to avoid the controvercy. Do I think Canzo should have pushed as hard as he did? No, thats him trying to engage listeners/readers however he can. I’m sure he feels the squeese coming down at the Oregonian

No Canzano, almost no drama. JQuick is probably pulling his crap just to keep up. I understand that works in some markets, but I don’t think us Blazer fans want that.

We just want to hear whats going on, help out with our support and possible input. We don’t want fake, blown-up drama clouding our airwaves. All this blown up, overboard drama is not what I want this market to be known as. He is the one asking players if they like being in this “fish-bowl” of a market, yet he is the one storring the water the most.

He sickens me at times, frankly. I literally turn the radio off when he’s on. I dont want to contribute by listening to his manipulative trash. To me he’s a tumor to this city.

but they should go together in the tunnel during the anthem, and they will come out All-stars.

cause instead facing the flag with hand over heart, he is looking around to find out whre Brandon Roy went. I was raised that while the national anthem was being sung, you place your hand on heart, fix your eyes on the flag and either join in singing, (if it is possible with how it is being sunf by the performer) or stand silently. I was not taught to stare at the other people around me, look down the halway or any other such thing as Canzano is doing during the anthem. The disrespect he shows to flag and country is appalling. Same with all of those people who cheer after the the land of the free, they are no longer following proper respectful protocol of silence and observance, they are not only interupting the performer of the song but showing a lack of respect by distracting from our devotional activity toward flaf and country…observe any man in uniform, they don’t even blink an eye during the anthem, let alone scream…

This last column about Roy was one of the few he has written that I object to…and not because of what he wrote, just how he wrote it. I think Canzano was trying to make the point that Roy should be with his team during this moment of togetherness rather than by himself. He wasn’t disturbed by some perceived lack of patriotism or respect for the flag. However, if the column was not read carefully , that could be easily inferred because it wasn’t particularly well written. What he added as filler was where the anti-flag tone came from. It just wasn’t a great column…a little painful to read, actually, in it’s lack of focus.

Canzano’s articles are typically “not bad” to “good”. As a radio host he is actually pretty good, and he is one of the best interviewers I have ever heard on the radio.

I really think he is encouraged to write inflammatory pieces. No different then the MSP’s brand of barrel-bottom pablum. It shows what the dolers-out of these guys paychecks think of us, the audience, for them to continuously dispense their ill contemplations upon us.

Canzano"s job is to sell papers, and to get listeners on the air, and he does that quite successfully. Yes, he is controversial. Yes, he pisses people off. Yes, he commits low blows. He feeds his daughter by doing all these things, and he is good at it. Just look at how much conversation he creates on Blazer Sedge by his negative articles. The man is quite good at pissing people off. If you don’t like him, don’t listen to him.

If you don’t like him, you should give him as many hits on his webiste you can. You should buy as many oregonians as you can, and tell them every day how much you love him. You should worship Canzano so he gets a national sports outlet sooner.

I mean seriously, he has to be close to getting a job offer from Yahoo, or ESPN, or some national sports media outlet. He was the #1 sports columnist in the country as voted by the AP last year….as if we could forget. He reminds us all the time.

A much more fitting “punishment” is the Blazers players and organization freezing him out.

That was a disgusting, vile article… and I do not say that lightly.

I’m still peed off about it.

Mortimer

Fire Canzano and the MSP Boys. Go with a 24-hr version of Wheels at Work. – Elgin