Boycott John Canzano

at least he doesn’t talk like Jim Rome

I’d help if they cared about some dude from Hawaii boycotting them. He is more annoying than TiH.

If you don’t like him then don’t listen to or read him. Not sure how this topic has anything to do with a Blazers Blog.

If you dont like him, dont listen to him or read his articles. Why should anyone do more than that? What was it that drove you to this step???

but to me a boycott is ridiculous. He has every right to his free speech, just like I do. It’s too bad that his blow-horn is bigger than mine, but that’s life. If I want a bigger voice, I can go to school for that or I could start a good site myself.

Canzano appeals to people caught in a midlife crisis.

…if you don’t like his writing/views, then don’t hit his articles. The Oregonian surely monitors the number of hits he gets and would eventually drop him if he had become irrelevant. Whilst people keep getting irate about what he has to say, increasing the controversy surrounding him and increasing the number of readers of his articles, of course they will keep him. Controversy sells.

other than being moderately liberal and mediocre in general?

don’t we have better things to do than to boycott a columnist on a saturday?

Go Blazers!

don’t listen to his show, and don’t read his column. Looking through his sponsors, the only one I’ve ever had dealings with is Sears…so, don’t think I’m really that concerned on that front, either…

Get a life, seriously.

works for The Fan. That would explain the whole thing.

You don’t have to convince me to boycott Canzano. That guy is the only guy in town that can fill 3 hours with Blazers and Ducks and still get me to change the station. Impressive indeed.

I’m not a SUPER duck fan or anything. I just have a hard time reading/listening to Canzano. A lot of the stuff he starts going into is just very opinionated and goes into a tangent and comes out sounding like a big soccer mom. A lot of his stuff is just irrelevant and pointless and what makes it worse is when an issue comes up, he tends to write about it a week later (when it’s not an issue anymore).

When going to Blazer games this past month with my father we always have the radio on and he just goes on and on and on about the Oregon Ducks thing. He doesn’t go on the specifics on what the players are doing and so on, he just concentrates on how Chip Kelly needs to play daddy and come out and say something when he has already said something.

This is the same thing he does with the Blazers, when something comes up he pulls the “image” card and goes on cruise control with it. It is just very hard to listen to it and end up changing the radio.

It also doesn’t help that he deletes my comments when it’s no pro-canzano. For instance I commented on his absolutely unfunny video on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgBrH4c4EUA) and on his blog. I said that it was not funny and poorly made (watch it, it’s absolutely horrible and not something he should even consider doing, he’s not a comedian). I also commented on how his websites all registered under Google as malware containing sites and were not able to be accessed by anyone. He deleted all of those comments too.

The guy to me just sounds like a big dick… but that’s just my take.

I listen on occasion and like some of the stuff he does. I don’t think he has a problem with people disagreeing with him or even admitting when he is wrong. Does he go too far one way or the other with is opinions? Sometimes. Is he worse than “The Godfather”? No. He annoyed me to no end the year after the Blazers drafted Roy and Aldridge. He seemed to want to drag the team into any controversy possible but he has taken a different tone as I think the Blazers have shown the change they made that season was genuine.

He may not be a saint but he isn’t the devil either.

If you are serious about this, my advice would be to start a website (a real one that is well-done, not something that is cheap and slapped together) where you assemble a record of:

1. all of the idiotic/baseless opinions he has had;

2. all of the times he has contradicted himself;

3. all of the times where he erred/stretched the truth to make his case.

While you are at it, see if you can gather facts about the claims he has made about himself. It looks like he wrote his own Wikipedia page, and he said many things about himself over the years that make me wonder if he’s trying to inflate himself to gain credibility.

For example, who ever heard of the “AP Sportswriter of the Year” award before he supposedly won it? Who won it before him? Who won it after him? Does the award carry any credibility whatsoever?

I also wonder if people in the media take him seriously – beyond his supposed ability to attract listeners/readers. Think you can get anyone in the media to comment about him anonymously? I bet you could.

Of course, you will be tarred and feathered as a “hater”, but so what? Be logical, be as factual as you can, and let the readers decide.

I don’t think calling his sponsors will do much good since it only shows that you are listening to/reading him. I, and it sounds like many others, have tried to vote by turning off their radios from 3-6, not clicking his article links, etc. to no avail (to the contrary, O-Live has a special “Canzano” link at the top of their online sports section.

So, try ratcheting up the awareness a notch. It couldn’t hurt, could it? The Oregonian and 95.5 already promote him to death so I can’t see how it would get worse.

He is winning.

Voidman, I want my life back… I’ll settle for you transferring ten minutes of your life to mine, please.

Thank you for your cooperation, and please don’t do this again. :)

easy as that

But I’m way too lazy to go calling sponsors in an attempt to eradicate him. There are too many actual bad guys in the world. My limited time & energy would be better spent attempting to undermine greedy corporate CEO’s, Vicodin-popping right-wing talk show hosts, etc.

As any intelligent person in this country knows the way you REALLY cast your vote is where you spend your money. Our dollars hold way more power than a vote. Even local elections where a small number of votes can turn an election cannot compete with the power of a dollar.

I do boycott certain businesses with my dollars that I consider to be morally bankrupt, or contribute to really egregious causes, and I take it very seriously. I take it as seriously as casting my vote on election day. I don’t think boycotting a business is something to take lightly, but something to take pride in, as boycotting can take some work. It can take dedication to not visit those places. It can be hard when they are big businesses that are everywhere. I also realize I can’t possibly boycott every business that I think is deleterious to my environment, so I pick and choose my battles.

I think JC is a douche. I don’t particularly like most of his stories, and hate how he tries to make all stories about him, but I don’t think he warrants a mobilization of people to try to silence him. That would be giving him WAYYYYYYY too much power. For me he doesn’t even come close to meeting my requirements to boycott. Because when I say I’m gonna boycott someone I follow through with it.

Also, as a clarifier understand that I’m not against boycotting just him at the Oregonian or his joke of a radio show. It’s easy to not click his links, voice your complaints with their PR department and to not listen to the radio show. But listing all of his sponsors and suggesting that we should all stop giving them our business ( over you disagreeing with a sportswriter they sponsor ) is incredibly civically irresponsible. Those businesses that you suggest we all stop giving our ( very important, given this economy ) dollar to have not done anything more than sponsor a sportswriter to get more business. They aren’t ( so far as I know ) burning down rainforests, using slave labor, or any other number of disgusting practices that I consider to be boycott worthy. Do they REALLY deserve to be neglected of incredibly important dollars simply because JC ruffled your feathers? Do you really want to hurt your local economy that badly just to prove a point to a douchebag sportswriter? If your answer is yes than I’m afraid you and I have nothing else to talk about.

talk about a guy that just searches for something negative to say at ALL TIMES.

He pulled a Nate quote about Mr. Batum that basically said “he could be a glue guy on a championship team, and the starting SF for this team”, and then turned that into a negative comment pigeon-holing Batum’s career.

I’m going to let this go because I didn’t catch it earlier, but this post really doesn’t have much substance. If you’re passionate about this cause you should probably devote a site to it yourself. It really isn’t sidebar material.

—Dave

i agree with about 1/3 of what Canzano has to say, but the purpose is to make you think. I listened to the Ch Kelly interview. Seemed fair. I also listened the next day, and he let dissenters call in and say why. what more can you ask for?? Do you just want a homer? If so, live in your own little world and listen to your mp3 while you drive around.

mods where are you?

by not ever listening or writing. I don’t know what hte current fuss is about and I just don’t care. Conzano is just someone i avoid.

because when you think about it they have to be outlandish and controversial to get people to listen. It’s amazing that sports radio still exists.

The paradigm of the local paper having the only access to the local teams is shifting with the death of newspaper industry. You no longer are limited to 1 or 2 perspectives of your local team.

Unless you are new to watching hoops what does a sports writer provide that you easily figure out yourself from watching games?