[USMA:40858] Email to Wall St Journal re Tuesday article

[Harry Wyeth]

Media editors are the bane of our existence!  Has anyone else read this 
article and pulled their hair out?

HARRY WYETH
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Editor:
This is not for publication, but an effort to get you to improve the 
Journal.

Why, oh why, do you insist on dumbing down metric measurements to 
confusing "customary" ones when doing so leads to confusion and 
complexity?  In Tuesday's article on "green" vehicles, you publish a 
chart with photos of four vehicles and specifications such as "111.9 
miles on a charge", "497.1 [miles] with backup gasoline engine", "range 
of 62.1 miles", and so forth.  Couldn't you bring yourselves to just say 
180 km, 800 km, and 100" in these instances?  Nice round numbers?

Do you think your readers are so stupid that they do not understand 
these simple numbers and the usefulness of the metric system?  Will you 
never change?

HARRY WYETH

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