Ireland has the same problem. All media use ifp and are an enormous brake on Irish metrication. The Irish Times is the best in this regard as it usually uses metric in European and world (except USA) news covering. Except when they print a European article from British newspapers. Then they print it as it is, which means ifp.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2002-01-22 21:05 Subject: [USMA:17542] Re: you Idea to make people aware of the need ofmetrication Dear All, It is an interesting point that the media were clear losers � by many years � in metrication in Australia. Journalists were extremely slow to adopt metric units in their work, and they were (and some still are) a constant source of frustration to the Australian metric proponents. We simply couldn't understand how they could continue, for so many years, without grasping the simplicity of SI. Cheers, Pat Naughtin
