[USMA:36400] RE: The people behind the dismantling of the U.S. Metric Board

[Remek Kocz]

The article's author, Frank Mankiewicz, was the president of National Public Radio in the '70's and '80's.  I wonder if his enmity towards the metric system has left an indelible stamp on the NPR.  The otherwise "progressive" news service leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to letting metric slip into their foreign correspondents' reports, or in many other areas.

As an aside, as the reports on the capture Charles Taylor in Africa were coming in, it was reported that he was apprehended 600 miles from the location of his house arrest.  This morning on NPR, a foreign correspondent got the miles and kilometers confused, and reported the obvious 1000 km as 1000 miles.  So much for accuracy in the media.

On 3/29/06, Linda D. Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This confirms what I always suspected of Reagan.

Linda Bergeron

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From: "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Subject: [USMA:36397] The people behind the dismantling of the U.S. Metric
Board
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:15:26 -0600



Read, weep:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032802142.html?referrer=emailarticle


Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
Editor, "Metric Today"
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