"But the Beeb? No...not impressed. They report in near 100% metric anyway."
Only on the international version (BBC World, etc) - jusk like CNN
international.
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:41:20 -0600> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> CC: [email protected]> Subject: [USMA:39985] Re: A
> welcome example of "smarting up"> > I would have been impressed with the
> Federal agency releasing the > amount of land in metric. But the Beeb?
> No...not impressed. They > report in near 100% metric anyway.> > Quoting Ezra
> Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> > > Dear USMA mailing list:> >> > Too often
> we see shared on this list instances of information > > originally given in
> metric units (from an organization or > > governmental body located outside
> the USA) that is "dumbed down" (as > > many list members have put it) to
> Imperial or US Customary units in > > news reports, magazine articles, etc
> here in the States.> >> > Tonight I was pleased to hear an instance of
> "smarting up". The BBC > > (broadcast over our National Public Radio network)
> reported tonight > > that a US Federal agency announced it was going to
> auction off > > concessions for drilling for oil off the shore of Alaska.
> That was > > the sad part. The positive part was that the announcer gave the
> size > > of the off-shore drilling area in square kilometers only.> >> >
> Clearly, the US Federal agency must have originally announced the > > size in
> square miles. I was quite pleasantly surprised to hear that > > the BBC had
> converted the area to metric and gave only that figure > > in their reading
> of the news.> >> > With continuing influence like that, there's hope for us
> yet, boys! ;-)> >> > Cheers,> > Ezra> >
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