The Summer Olympic Games is coming up this year. I don't remember whether or not NBC, during the 2000 games, converted all the (metric) sports into imperial for the U.S. audience but I assume they did. Has everyone on this list sent a POLITE email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking them NOT to convert the results to English units this year? I'm pretty sure that track & field and swimming are kept as 100-meter, 200-meter, etc. What about high jump, long jump, javelin, etc? Will they still be reported in feet/inches AGAIN this year?
I think that all the networks, as a matter of policy, should report the news using the units of the country from where they are reporting. If they are reporting from inside the U.S., then use Imperial. If they're reporting from overseas, USE METRIC! There has to be some effort put forth by the media on this. There's not a magic wand, governmental or otherwise, that will make the U.S. public all of a sudden begin to think and speak metric. There has to be some initiative and steps taken. On a positive note, I've noticed that CNN reporters from Iraq, Israel, and other places are sometimes using both units! One reporter had a foreign accent but I heard another American reporter also use SI units. We need to show the networks there is a demand out there to move toward metric reporting. jd
