James Frysinger wrote in USMA 15153: >One of the sad repercussions of this innumeracy is that journalists >seem to be significantly more antimetric than the average American. As >owners of the Daily Pulp(it) they have an unfair advantage in the war >of words in this skirmish in which our society is involved--the battle >to move towards using the universal meter, despite our federal >government's parochial foot-dragging in metricating our country. In Australia the Metric Conversion Board got the journalists on-side at the very beginning of the metrication campaign. I suspect that the difference from American journalists is that the Australians have no illusions about Australia being a Great Power. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
