2003-04-03 When the reporters were following the troops in, there wasn't time to dumb down the units and there was a lot more SI used. Now that there is a lot less "at the front" reporting the reporters and/or editors have time to dumb down the distances.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2003-04-03 12:15 Subject: [USMA:25416] RE: Fwd: Re: 121 arguments against SI > In a message dated 4/3/2003 9:42:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > I'm sure there are some exceptions. BTW, does anyone know about the > > Marines? (I would think it would be very hard to coordinate right now, if > > the Army was using metric and the Marines using ifp.) > > > > I'm sure everyone's heard the frequent reports this morning of "6 miles" > > from Baghdad. > > > > Nat > > > In almost every case the media dumb down the information for the US, even if it was given in metric to begin with. > > Carleton >
