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Is Canzano being unethical?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by statrat, Aug 15, 2007.

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  1. friend of the friendless

    friend of the friendless Active Member

    Sirs, Madames,

    Sounds like Canzano is good as far as the paper goes ... so long as the radio station doesn't give him a free parking spot. Then the shit will fly.

    YHS, etc
     
  2. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    The newspaper equivalent of a lynch mob. Calling ya'll the Poynter Police was wrong from the get go. Vigilante is better.
    Who are you to decide what's the "proper conduct"?
    That's been my point all along.
    The only information you're working from is a possibly flawed alt-weekly story and a Canzano column, unless you are him or someone involved you have no clue as to what the contract says or the thought process that went into the agreement.
    Just mind-numbing that you would appoint yourself a member of the lynch mob and go looking for a tree without knowing all the facts.
    You're the one who is an embarrassment.
     
  3. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    JayFarrar, starting to look like you don't believe in the entire concept of "proper conduct."

    That would be situational ethics at best, and that's not how journalism is set up.

    And seriously, what more info is needed, other than Canzano taking checks from Paul Allen's radio station while writing about the Blazers for the Oregonian?

    In your world, all juries must be lynch mobs.
     
  4. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Canzano wrote in his column blog that he was "NOT" an employee of the radio station ...
    He does not detail the arrangments and neither does the WW article. Unless you are privy to the contract, you do not know all the facts.
    I've only decided not to pass judgment, which is what I thought journalists were supposed to do, but enjoy looking for that tree.
     
  5. broadway joe

    broadway joe Guest

    Jay, have you asked yourself how on earth Canzano could draw a paycheck for hosting the radio show yet not be an employee of the station? Are you willing to take him at his word on that even though it defies all logic? If he has performed that bit of magic, he damn well owes it to his readers to explain how that works. Besides, whether he is technically termed an employee or not doesn't change the basics of the situation one bit. He has entered into a financial relationship with someone he's covering. Case closed. Why is it so hard to see that?
     
  6. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    For the record, Freeman and Darlington also deserved criticism.
     
  7. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    so, what you're saying is: if someone pays you to perform a service for them on a regular basis, you are their employee? where do you come up with these crazy ideas?
     
  8. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Pretty easy.
    Canzano could have incorporated himself, bought the airtime from the station and took the sponsors of his old radio show with him as sponsors of the new show.
    Meaning he is not an employee of Allen's radio station and not getting a check from Allen. The sponsors' money goes to Canzano's corporation and then he cuts himself a check.
    Hey, vigilantes, that okay with you?
    And that's just one of several simple ways it could have been done.
     
  9. Twoback

    Twoback Active Member

    Wow. That's a tough one.
    He produces the show as an independent entity and sells the content to them.
     
  10. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Pretty sleazy is more like it.
     
  11. broadway joe

    broadway joe Guest


    Besides, whether he is technically termed an employee or not doesn't change the basics of the situation one bit. He has entered into a financial relationship with someone he's covering.


    And my point remains.
     
  12. friend of the friendless

    friend of the friendless Active Member

    Mr Farrar,

    Your strategy for avoiding conflict is quite innovative, I'll admit, but it falls just short.

    If he buys the time from the radio station, he has to negotiate a price of said time. Again, placing him in a position of conflict. Would he get a better rate with favorable coverage? Would his time slot disappear if he were critical? It's hard to unscramble the egg.

    YHS, etc
     
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