Canzano found another cancer kid for his award-bait article...

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http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2011/01/canzano_a_smiling_teen_battles.html

I really want to dick-punch this guy for exploiting kids with diseases like this just to use the articles when he submits to the "Top Sportswriters" awards committee. He did this with that girl who died a year ago, and he's now found a new kid to exploit for his own personal gain.

Fuck you Canzano. Fuck you with a bag of hammers.
 
Canzano writing an article about some kid in need is like team management putting their millionaire players into a soup kitchen with cameras rolling. It's for show.
 
jlprk said:
Canzano writing an article about some kid in need is like team management putting their millionaire players into a soup kitchen with cameras rolling. It's for show.
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He's going to win that fucking award again... I just know it. I hope he trips picking it up, gashes his thigh open, and bleeds out on the dais. Then Kenny Vance can write a eulogy and win the award next year.
 
The phrase "cancer kid" probably wasn't your best choice.

EDIT: Corrected my unofficial quote.
 
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Instead of a thread about us meeting to make a podcast or whatever it is, the thread should be about us meeting to demonstrate in front of the organization that keeps giving Canzano the awards. Now that, I'd show up for. I don't think the reporters' organization knows how hated Canzano is.
 
I agree. The guy is the definition of the word "chode".

Remember that episode of the Simpsons when Bart is a news caster? That reminds me of this.

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Yeah, God forbid that a kid with cancer (or "cancer kid" ... are you fucking kidding me???) and a foundation to raise money for him gets some publicity in the local paper.

What an irrational and dooshy thread.
 
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PapaG said:
Yeah, God forbid that a kid with cancer (or "cancer kid" ... are you fucking kidding me???) and a foundation to raise money for him gets some publicity in the local paper.

What an irrational and dooshy thread.
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I figured it was time for you (I know, of all people) to chime in and become the moral compass.

You're past has proven you're quite the model of decency.
 
PapaG said:
Yeah, God forbid that a kid with cancer (or "cancer kid" ... are you fucking kidding me???) and a foundation to raise money for him gets some publicity in the local paper.

What an irrational and dooshy thread.
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Sorry, but I disagree. I think it's worse that Canzano is using these people to benefit his career.
 
I long ago nicknamed him "Cancer Canzano" because of the alliteration, and in retaliation for his writing that Sheed/Bonzi etc. was the cancer of the team. Canzano is the cancer of the team.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Sorry, but I disagree. I think it's worse that Canzano is using these people to benefit his career.
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Isn't the kid's family using Canzano to raise money for their foundation, and awareness for the disease they deal with on a daily basis?
 
I agree the OP is overreacting. I think Canzano is simply doing his duty to give back to the community and taking responsbility of his platform. Furthermore, I doubt Canzano really needs help "furthering his career," he's already got all the work he wants and is twice dubbed "sports columnist of the year." Not to say that I agree with his drama induced columns.
 
PapaG said:
Isn't the kid's family using Canzano to raise money for their foundation, and awareness for the disease they deal with on a daily basis?
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Sure, and there's a place for it, but it's not the sports section. Sorry, I feel like we've probably debated over this before, but my contention is that the sports section is an escape for some people. We go to the sports section because we don't want to read about a suicide bomber killing 30 people or the economy being in the shitter. My dad has been fighting lung cancer for the past year... do you think I want to read about cancer in the sports section? I've already read plenty on cancer over the past 12 months.

If John wants to write about stories like this, and raise awareness, that's great! Do it somewhere else. I think his only objective is to make us feel bad about being so involved with a sports team. His articles always have this smug feel, "yeah the Blazers won, but this kid has cancer." What's he trying to accomplish? Let us know that there are more important things in life than a basketball game? No shit. How about unpaid bills or getting fired or any of the other real life problems that I'm sure any number of us deal with on a daily basis? We don't need John Canzano to remind us that life sucks, but hey, here's another award John! Might as well call the guy Captain Obvious.
 
HailBlazers said:
..and is twice dubbed "sports columnist of the year."
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From what I understand, he won both those awards for articles like this, not articles about sports. So this point of yours actually seems to support the idea that he "needs" these types of things to write about to further his career.

Whether it's wrong for him to do it, or exploitation, is a lot less clear. Many people enjoy reading human interest stories, the subjects like the exposure (none of them seem like unwilling participants) and Canzano obviously likes to write them. I'm not sure I see a victim.

I don't particularly like Canzano as a writer, but I don't think he's doing anything unethical.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Sure, and there's a place for it, but it's not the sports section. Sorry, I feel like we've probably debated over this before, but my contention is that the sports section is an escape for some people. We go to the sports section because we don't want to read about a suicide bomber killing 30 people or the economy being in the shitter. My dad has been fighting lung cancer for the past year... do you think I want to read about cancer in the sports section? I've already read plenty on cancer over the past 12 months.

If John wants to write about stories like this, and raise awareness, that's great! Do it somewhere else. I think his only objective is to make us feel bad about being so involved with a sports team. His articles always have this smug feel, "yeah the Blazers won, but this kid has cancer." What's he trying to accomplish? Let us know that there are more important things in life than a basketball game? No shit. How about unpaid bills or getting fired or any of the other real life problems that I'm sure any number of us deal with on a daily basis? We don't need John Canzano to remind us that life sucks, but hey, here's another award John! Might as well call the guy Captain Obvious.
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RFT!! (Repped For Truth!)
 
Minstrel said:
From what I understand, he won both those awards for articles like this, not articles about sports. So this point of yours actually seems to support the idea that he "needs" these types of things to write about to further his career.

Whether it's wrong for him to do it, or exploitation, is a lot less clear. Many people enjoy reading human interest stories, the subjects like the exposure (none of them seem like unwilling participants) and Canzano obviously likes to write them. I'm not sure I see a victim.

I don't particularly like Canzano as a writer, but I don't think he's doing anything unethical.
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Actually, the awards are based on a series of 5 articles, not one article as a stand-alone.

Here are the 5 articles for the 2008 reward (yes, Katie Schearer was one of them). The other 4 have nothing to do with cancer, or another "victim" that Canzano supposedly exploits.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2009/04/john_canzanos_awardwinning_spo.html
 
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Natebishop3 said:
Sure, and there's a place for it, but it's not the sports section. Sorry, I feel like we've probably debated over this before, but my contention is that the sports section is an escape for some people. We go to the sports section because we don't want to read about a suicide bomber killing 30 people or the economy being in the shitter. My dad has been fighting lung cancer for the past year... do you think I want to read about cancer in the sports section? I've already read plenty on cancer over the past 12 months.

If John wants to write about stories like this, and raise awareness, that's great! Do it somewhere else. I think his only objective is to make us feel bad about being so involved with a sports team. His articles always have this smug feel, "yeah the Blazers won, but this kid has cancer." What's he trying to accomplish? Let us know that there are more important things in life than a basketball game? No shit. How about unpaid bills or getting fired or any of the other real life problems that I'm sure any number of us deal with on a daily basis? We don't need John Canzano to remind us that life sucks, but hey, here's another award John! Might as well call the guy Captain Obvious.
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If you get "life sucks" out of the Katie Schearer article, then that's seems more like a personal issue to you. I found it to be a bit awe-inspiring that someone who was in such a dark place could still get the same joy out of the Blazers as I get. That article reminded me to enjoy the little things, and that all of the Blazermaniacs out there come from very different backgrounds and life circumstances.

For Schearer, I read it as the Blazers being her "escape" from he own reality, and I'm glad she wanted to share that escape with her fellow fans. I guess I'm just not naive enough to still treat sports as some sort of idyllic playground where bad things never happen, or when they do, the hero always prevails. Isn't that what Disney Movies are for. ;)
 
PapaG said:
If you get "life sucks" out of the Katie Schearer article, then that's seems more like a personal issue to you. I found it to be a bit awe-inspiring that someone who was in such a dark place could still get the same joy out of the Blazers as I get. That article reminded me to enjoy the little things, and that all of the Blazermaniacs out there come from very different backgrounds and life circumstances.

For Schearer, I read it as the Blazers being her "escape" from he own reality, and I'm glad she wanted to share that escape with her fellow fans. I guess I'm just not naive enough to still treat sports as some sort of idyllic playground where bad things never happen, or when they do, the hero always prevails. Isn't that what Disney Movies are for. ;)
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Yeah, but you just said it yourself.... she used the Blazers as an "escape". Do you think the Blazers would still be an escape if there was a constant reminder around the Rose Garden or on the broadcasts about her condition? Speaking from personal experience, after I found out my dad had a tumor six centimeters in diameter in his left lung, the last thing I wanted to hear about on television or in the movies was cancer. It pretty much fucked up my summer and it was hard not to fall into depression. Cancer is everywhere. It's constantly in plot lines on TV, and it's pretty hard not to let it get to you when a loved one is dealing with it, so why would I want to hear about cancer when I'm following my favorite sports team?
 
The thing I don't get is why JC doesn't just once and for all switch over to the living section and follow his muse.
 
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Nikolokolus said:
The thing I don't get is why JC doesn't just once and for all switch over to the living section once and for all and follow his muse.
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Chuck Culpepper was the same damn way. Can't the Oregonian find a decent opinion columnist who wants to talk about sports? Is that so much to ask?
 
Natebishop3 said:
Chuck Culpepper was the same damn way. Can't the Oregonian find a decent opinion columnist who wants to talk about sports? Is that so much to ask?
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Because he's good at his job. Look, he's an idiot that likes to stir the pot and not very knowledgeable about the NBA, or any professional sport really. But, he creates controversy and people talk about him.
 
Nikolokolus said:
The thing I don't get is why JC doesn't just once and for all switch over to the living section and follow his muse.
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Because that bastard Steve Duin hasn't retired yet. As soon as he does, you can bet Canzano will take the Cranky Old Man column and some new bozo will take Sports.

I'm not sure why the Cranky Old Man column is more desirable than a sports column, but it certainly seems to be the holy grail at the Oregonian.

barfo
 
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