Willamette Week | Oregonian
Oregonian sports columnist
John Canzano (left) will be getting a paycheck from Trail Blazers owner
Paul Allen's radio station -- the Blazers' flagship station -- beginning next month. Some Oregonian staffers are grumbling about the deal, reports
Corey Pein, and Columbia j-school prof
Sandy Padwe wonders why editors approved the arrangement. "I think it is a conflict, no matter how he tries to justify it," says the prof. ||
Canzano writes: "It's unprecedented for a flagship station to give an outspoken critic such widespread autonomy."
