Sent a few days ago to National Public Radio reference their morning edition program.
Michael Payne In your story this morning (Wednesday) on the Russians in Georgia, your correspondent stated the woman told me "I am 2 yards from a Russian tank". I find this hard to believe as no one outside the US uses yards, it was more likely meters. Why the aversion to using facts? Does your correspondent think Americans don't know meters? What are we using in the Olympics? Yards? Is it professional to change the facts to the perceived viewpoint of the listener? Everyone in the US learns the metric system in school, according to Federal Law it's the preferred system in the US (except for Journalists apparently). Every company in the US that exports uses the metric system. Give us the original facts not your conversion or opinion of the facts. If we learn it in school and use it in life, let us hear it on your program, you should not be in the censorship business! Censorship is when you remove facts that you think listeners don't need.
