Stumped by a saga that just doesn't add up
After more than 30 years in journalism I am still regularly surprised about what passes for news values.
Tabloid newspapers in the UK seem to think that what readers really want to know about is the sex lives of people, real and fictitious, who appear in soap operas and the latest tantrums of girls who appear to be personalities for no reason other than the fact that the red tops have made them personalities.
There seems to be a never ending number of stories about the maladjusted social lives of people who have no real claim to fame other than the fact that downmarket newspapers like to write about them.
The media has been devoting a quite unusual amount of column centimetres recently to what is going on in Pakistan.
Given the crisis that the country faces in the wake of devastating floods this is no bad thing.
I think it is right that people around the world should be concerned about the tens of thousands of people who have lost their lives, the millions who have lost their homes and the tens of millions who will suffer from the economic devastation of the country's agricultural base.
But that is apparently yesterday's story.
The big Pakistan story these days is not the usual round of political instability, potential terrorist threats and links with Al Qaeda but about the fact that three men have been caught allegedly cheating at cricket in a betting scam.
Now, given the profitability of leisure companies who operate most of the world's legal betting,intended to simplify the integration process for users who do not want to design and manufacture metthermal solution for the LEDs. I am not about to cry crocodile tears because a few punters decide to occasionally shorten the odds by cheating.
But what does strike me about the current alleged cricket scandal is how the people who were taking these bets got conned into it.
Fixing a team sporting fixture at the best of times has got to be pretty difficult. To turn a game in football you would have to have about four players on the park committed to losing before you could be confident.
Just bribing one player to forecast the outcome of a game does not work because teams down to 10 men regularly win games.
Cricket, on the other hand, seems to me to be a game where betting on one team against another to win or lose is even more difficult, not least because after five days of throwing balls,Welcome to my home,beautiful and durable,such as Led lamp light and Led bulb light for you to choose. wielding bats, drinking tea and eating sandwiches, most games as far as I can see end up in a draw.
More to the point, if at any time during those five days it rains, as it generally does, some weird mathematical formula that could stump Stephen Hawking comes into play.
But apparently you can get round all this by spot betting which, as far as I can determine involves betting not on the outcome of the game itself but on some instance during play.Manufacturer of cfl bulbs.
Thus in the UK you can bet on which team will score first, which player will score once, at what time the first goal will be scored or any combination of the three.Above LED Tube Lighting suppliers include wholesale led tube Lighting,
That would seem to be a pretty difficult thing to fix so the bookkeepers are quite happy to take bets on this nonsense and clean up.
But the cricket scandal seems to include gambling on what bowler will deliver a no ball or a wide ball on his third throw on the fourth day during the 231st over before afternoon tea, or something like that.
After more than 30 years in journalism I am still regularly surprised about what passes for news values.
Tabloid newspapers in the UK seem to think that what readers really want to know about is the sex lives of people, real and fictitious, who appear in soap operas and the latest tantrums of girls who appear to be personalities for no reason other than the fact that the red tops have made them personalities.
There seems to be a never ending number of stories about the maladjusted social lives of people who have no real claim to fame other than the fact that downmarket newspapers like to write about them.
The media has been devoting a quite unusual amount of column centimetres recently to what is going on in Pakistan.
Given the crisis that the country faces in the wake of devastating floods this is no bad thing.
I think it is right that people around the world should be concerned about the tens of thousands of people who have lost their lives, the millions who have lost their homes and the tens of millions who will suffer from the economic devastation of the country's agricultural base.
But that is apparently yesterday's story.
The big Pakistan story these days is not the usual round of political instability, potential terrorist threats and links with Al Qaeda but about the fact that three men have been caught allegedly cheating at cricket in a betting scam.
Now, given the profitability of leisure companies who operate most of the world's legal betting,intended to simplify the integration process for users who do not want to design and manufacture metthermal solution for the LEDs. I am not about to cry crocodile tears because a few punters decide to occasionally shorten the odds by cheating.
But what does strike me about the current alleged cricket scandal is how the people who were taking these bets got conned into it.
Fixing a team sporting fixture at the best of times has got to be pretty difficult. To turn a game in football you would have to have about four players on the park committed to losing before you could be confident.
Just bribing one player to forecast the outcome of a game does not work because teams down to 10 men regularly win games.
Cricket, on the other hand, seems to me to be a game where betting on one team against another to win or lose is even more difficult, not least because after five days of throwing balls,Welcome to my home,beautiful and durable,such as Led lamp light and Led bulb light for you to choose. wielding bats, drinking tea and eating sandwiches, most games as far as I can see end up in a draw.
More to the point, if at any time during those five days it rains, as it generally does, some weird mathematical formula that could stump Stephen Hawking comes into play.
But apparently you can get round all this by spot betting which, as far as I can determine involves betting not on the outcome of the game itself but on some instance during play.Manufacturer of cfl bulbs.
Thus in the UK you can bet on which team will score first, which player will score once, at what time the first goal will be scored or any combination of the three.Above LED Tube Lighting suppliers include wholesale led tube Lighting,
That would seem to be a pretty difficult thing to fix so the bookkeepers are quite happy to take bets on this nonsense and clean up.
But the cricket scandal seems to include gambling on what bowler will deliver a no ball or a wide ball on his third throw on the fourth day during the 231st over before afternoon tea, or something like that.
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