From CBC online:
"A Vancouver newspaper has fired one of its sports columnists after he admitted that he copied parts of a Sports Illustrated article and used them in his own piece.
The decision came after David Pratt admitted he plagiarized material from a Sept. 12, 2000, article written by Rick Reilly, a basketball commentator, the Province announced Wednesday."
I'm glad to see that the Province management has taken this step and fired Mr. Pratt. It gives me a good example to illustrate the consequences that can occur for plagiarizing. And I don't buy's Pratt's rationalizations...
"Pratt told CBC News on Wednesday that he made a mistake and has apologized repeatedly in the last 24 hours.
He describes the plagiarism as a "minor gaffe," saying he saw the Reilly column and thought "that's a pretty good line."
"It was a Saturday and I wanted to get out of [the office] before noon," he said over the phone." (again from CBC online).
If he really thought it was a good line then he should have given the appropriate credit to the original author and the horseshit excuse about wanting to get out of the office is really the icing on the cake.
3 comments:
This guy's a bum. Check out what I wrote about it at the CBC website. I think my comment is number one or two.
He's a hack and the radio station should can him too.
He just wanted to get out of the office so figured plagiarism is okay in that circumstance. I hope all sports related guests boycott him now.
Time to give his spot to the Moj. At least Marjonovic talks about sports, not just hockey and getting drunk alone in the city.
Wanted to get out of the office....wow. What a chump.
Deserved to get fired.
Cuddo's to Quints comments - Pratt's time is up - get rid of his simian, monkey faced sidekick Taylor at the same time; his nasally stique (sp) bores me to tears.
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