Oregon Media Insiders

Look, interllectualize it any way you want ... use as many examples of as you want ... it will never be OK for a columnist in a local paper to get paid by the owner of the only big-time professional team in the state. If you're trying to say sports and news and politics are not the same thing ... then just admit Canzano's column is just like professional wrestling ... it's a fake. Name me another columnist of a major-market newspaper who is also being paid by the owner of a team he/she is supposed to be covering ... unless the owner also owns the team AND the paper. Then, I don't give them any respect, either. The "O" sure has come a long way from when columnists Pete Schulberg and Dwight Jaynes couldn't write their columns AND work for KPAM ... and Bob Pamplin doesn't own a team. It's wrong, John. It's wrong, wrong, wrong and I, for one, will not read any column you write that has a Blazer angle. Live with THAT.