2003-03-23 I though the BBC was pretty much metric. Why would they need to do this?
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2003-03-23 20:52 Subject: [USMA:25284] Imperial pause Dear Jim and All, Here, in Australia, we get several media 'feeds' reporting on the situation in Iraq. These are from the various networks from the USA; the BBC from the UK; Australia's ABC; and Al Jazeera (in Arabic � that I can't understand) This note is about the pause that comes with the reports from the BBC just before they mention any measurement in their reports. Quote: 'The missiles are landing (ah umm = imperial pause) about two thirds of a mile away'. Quote 2: 'The flames appear (ah umm = imperial pause) about a mile and a half away. Clearly the (ah umm = imperial pause) is needed for the reporter either to do a mental conversion from metric units, or to look up a convenient conversion chart. Have you noticed this in media reports in the USA? Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia on 2003-03-24 07.32, James Frysinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have sent a fill-in-the-box reply to MSNBC in response to their question, > "How do you like our Interactive Maps?". > > Essentially, I told them that our troops operate in kilometers, most of the > reporting is in kilometers, and that most of the world, including many > Americans, use and understand kilometers. On that basis I asked them to > include a kilometer scale on their maps, which so far seem to have only > scales in miles. > > Jim
