Is Portland Media Hicksville?

…but I’d call it Hacksville. I come from Hicksville and the media is nowhere near as inflammatory there.

JOHN CANZANO. Yes, he does absolutely suck. The directions he goes are completely unneccesary and he acts as if we are the ones with the problem. He preys on the naivete of this town. I wish people would stop tuning in and supporting his BS. If you have a legit story to tell John, tell it. If you are just being an a-hole, blowing something up 10x bigger than it needs to be, then acting as if everyone else has a problem, please sit down and shut up. I suggest we create a “Deuchiest Person in Portland” award. We should then show up on his porch with megaphones, knocking on the windows and waking Anna up to take pictures with her and the award, multiple days in a row. Then when John acts as if there is a problem, we will all say, “you’re the one with a problem John, this award is for you! How can you turn this award down? You are so small minded!”

Outside of that, I do think the Blazers are media hicksville in some ways. The local guys are always feeding sunshine and damage control. Someone just tell the truth please!

Watching Boise State’s fans this year, I have been emberassed for them. For the most part, they do not know anything outside of their little world….I would say it’s worse than it is here, but our “rivalry” with the Lakers is one to us and a joke to them. I think Blazer fan needs to realize, it truly is a joke to them……and it would be to us if the roles were reversed.

Let’s get some perspective guys and quit acting like the local media guys are gospel. Come to your own conclusions and demand better than blind faith.

The answer is to turn these jokers off. Don’t read the crap they write, don’t listen and call in when they make ludicrous statements. If it stops getting them ratings, they’ll have to come up with a new tactic. We’re devoted, so we’re easily manipulated.

is that he’s so completely utterly boring.

Even when he’s trying to stir things up he’s tedious. I don’t read his pieces and it has worked out pretty well, try it sometime!

When the team struggles the Portland media rush in to make the story about themselves. Quick, Jaynes, Canzano- any and all of them. Too bad Brian Smith went to Utah.

on Americans is justified as retribution for the opening of a Starbucks and a Kentucky Fried Chicken next to a sacred religious site in Yemen.

Never mind that the Yemenis that frequent those businesses, and keep the doors open w/ their discretionary spending, are, by and large, Muslims.

So,

You get innuendo and speculation from national writers as well. It’s a side effect of the internet: having a lot of page views has become more and more important, and good old-fashioned journalism — you know, the kind that’s based on more than one credible source — has taken a hit.

Is Portland Media Hicksville?

In a word, yes. Case in point, the latest histrionic post from Perez Hilt… I mean Jason Quick….

Although Roy didn’t mention names, he is clearly frustrated with his backcourt pairing with Miller. Roy wants to be surrounded by shooters like former teammates Steve Blake and Travis Outlaw, who gave him space to penetrate and create. Miller, although extremely effective and smart, frustrates Roy because he struggles with his outside shot, allowing teams to play off him and more easily trap Roy.

   This is what you get when your team is playing poorly and your path to success has been derailed. Good teams get the elevator bad teams get the shaft.

Krang, I have no idea how old you are, but I’ve definitely seen changes in journalism over the years. TV news has become little more than sound bites. Radio news has all but disappeared. Newspaper coverage mixes fact with opinion. The internet has trumped all with everyone able to express opinions to the world about things of which they know little.

Opinions should be formed by facts, but it’s hard to know what the facts are nowadays because we get opinions fed to us as facts. It used to be that we would know which was which because in the world of journalism there was straight reporting which was based on fact and primary sources. There was also opinion which appeared only in columns. The news reporters were not columnists. Reporters dealt in facts, the columnists in opinion. In sports, the game stories were the facts. Here is what happened in the game. There was no conjecture or innuendo as to why a team did what they did. We were presented with the facts and allowed to form our own opinion. Columnists expressed their opinions explaining why they felt the way they did – presenting facts to back up their theories.

Or any reaction at all, really. Like Glenn Beck, if we talk about him, he wins (and The Game and The Oregonian). Just listen to the intro for his show.
I love being a Blazers fan and I love this city, but Simmon’s take on Blazers fans has some truth. We are hyper-defensive and perhaps a little misdirected in some of our attachments.
I really believe that Canzano plays his lack of attachment to the Blazers, and some of his laughable angles up so it becomes us against him. Like anyone in media or entertainment he’d rather be a bad guy than a nobody.
The problem is, in this (one horse, with apologies to the WinterHawks) town, and with the depth of the fanaticism (which, I should add, is almost always a good thing), he really accomplishes what he has set out to do, because, let’s face it, it’s probably a little easier here. However, I imagine most markets have a sports writer/talker like this, and know of a few.

This is something I agree big time on. 2 years ago I loved reading headlines about the Blazers but now it’s becoming a manipulating party for them.

They are just poor and not needed. They lost my attention a long time ago.

Before I learned of the awesomeness that is Blazersedge, I got my Blazers news from The Oregonian and Dwight Jaynes, and frequented to Oregonlive Blazer forum. After finding Bedge, I still went back to those to “learn” some things about the Blazers, but as I spend more and more time here, I realize how much higher quality the reporting, analyzing, and commenting is here. I have not got to either of those sites in over a year, and I don’t even read the game previews in the paper anymore. The other sites are just useless junk, it is either sub par facts and stats, or fear mongering. I for one am proud that I have made my thoughts of the quality of their work by not clicking on their sites, I will not support so par work, and will not give them the internet traffic they so covet. /rant

Portland has a small-town mentality. The media is just a symptom of it.

got his own radio show.

Hicksville galore. and quite embarrassing nationally

This is exactly why Blazersedge is important.

it doesn’t matter if you’re in Portland or Los Angeles because it’s an industry populated by hacks. TJ Simmers and Bill Plaschke suck as hard as Canzano. There’s something about guys who decide to report about sports for a living, most of them are incredibly deceptive as well as lazy.