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Cricinfo sacked a commentator for plagiarism?


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Cricinfo is rapidly going down the pan -- terrible website layout -- mostly smug as feck commentators and analysts -- 0 filtering of the comments to their articles I shifted to cricbuzz a long time ago. But that was mostly due to cricinfo's layout. the only thing cricinfo are good for its statistical analysis and their database.

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It's almost as if people are looking for points to hate Cricinfo. They have a "no plagiarism" policy and they adhere to it - they don't want employees who plagiarize. What's the deal here?

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It's almost as if people are looking for points to hate Cricinfo. They have a "no plagiarism" policy and they adhere to it - they don't want employees who plagiarize. What's the deal here?
Hi Mr Bal.
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This is too much. If the guy had dozed off at work, well there is not much to be done about it now. If he missed one ball due to reasons beyond his control, he deserves a better deal.

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This is too much. If the guy had dozed off at work' date=' well there is not much to be done about it now. If he missed one ball due to reasons beyond his control, he deserves a better deal.[/quote'] Missing ball is ok..but copy from competitor is an issue... What if Cricbuzz starts complaining?
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The problem for these cricinfo commentators is that many times they just look at their TV sets and type down stuff. If the connection goes for whatever reason then The balls too happen within barely a minute of each other.

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Also it was pretty stupid as well.Fine he might have missed for variety of fdair reasons ut doesnt mean have to entirely copy cricbuzz's entire post. He could have simply read the cricbuzz post and just written a simple summary of the delivery .Copying word for word was pretty daft This gives unnecessary bad light to cricinfo if cricbuzz starts complaining.Cant blame cricinfo here tbh

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Also it was pretty stupid as well.Fine he might have missed for variety of fdair reasons ut doesnt mean have to entirely copy cricbuzz's entire post. He could have simply read the cricbuzz post and just written a simple summary of the delivery .Copying word for word was pretty daft This gives unnecessary bad light to cricinfo if cricbuzz starts complaining.Cant blame cricinfo here tbh
time is also an issue. In the heat of the moment, not many think straight its not as if he had all the time in the world and then still decided to copy. Axing somebody for this is a bit cold hearted. By all means suspend and warn the person in question to set standards. Maybe cricinfo need to send their ball by ball commentators to the ground? I can easily see this mistake being repeated.
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Just coping and pasting is not the right thing to do. How to cover the match would have been laid out on cricinfo's SOP .... However, sacking the commentator is a bit harsh unless it is a part time type of job where it would not have had a big impact on the employee. A written warning issed to the commentator probably could have been a better option

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