That would make sense, Patrick, because most likely an editor pulled this off of some on-line service and paraphrased it. I doubt that Fox sent a reporter to the scene.
Hopefully the editorial staff can read between the lines and take my suggestions for personal action. Jim >-----Original Message----- >From: Patrick Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 09:55 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'U.S. Metric Association' >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [USMA:38688] Poorly written article > >I bet it was Fox editors, not reporters, who converted meters to yards. >Sports reporters have trackside savvy and know meters intuitively. We >editors, I am embarrassed to confess, are office-bound wonks likely to >misapply arcane scraps of learning such as conversion factors. > > >> From: James R Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:50:27 +0000 >> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [USMA:38688] Poorly written article >> >> Dear Editor, >> >> Surely, in the article below seen today on foxnews.com, you meant to say "100 >> m" or "100-meter" instead of "110-yard". The Mainichi Daily News undoubtedly >> used the metric value instead of putting it in yards. >> >> I am confident that every American alive today has seen a meter stick and >> knows how large a meter is. Americans often watch Olympic and U.S. track and >> swim events, where distances are given in meters, such as 100 m sprints. >> >> Please do not "dumb down" your articles for us. As the United States >> continues >> its progress towards metrication such awkward substitutions as yours seem >> very >> obsolete. Even the AP style guide says that you should have retained the >> metric value! >> >> If your reporters are behind the curve of the rest of us Americans, as they >> seem to be here, perhaps you could arrange some in-house education for them. >> I >> would hate to see your journalists getting left in the dust of days that have >> long gone by. >> >> Jim Frysinger >> >> [cited article] >> Attack of the 110-Yard Monster Sushi Roll >> >> Tuesday, May 15, 2007 >> >> Now that's a wrap, or should we say roll? >> >> About 1,000 people turned out Sunday in Mexico to make a 110-yard-long sushi >> roll in honor of the 110th anniversary of the first Japanese immigration to >> Mexico, the Mainichi Daily News reports. >> >> The participants many of Japanese descent worked together to make an >> "Azteca" roll using cactus, fish cake and rice. >> >> "The rolled sushi, a mixture of Japanese and Mexican food, symbolizes the >> integration of both cultures," a 64-year-old man of Japanese descent told the >> paper. >> >> The first Japanese immigrants came to Mexico in 1897, the paper said. Only 35 >> people came in the first wave. Today, the Japanese-Mexican population remains >> small, with around 17,000 people of Japanese descent living in this nation of >> approximately 105 million. >> >> The event was sponsored by a local Japan-Mexico society. >> >> Source: >> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272293,00.html >> >> > >
