In today's local News Gazette new records followed by previous records are all in meters only.
I now believe that at least some AP reporters or editors, responding to little demand for duality, are simply tired of converting Olympic records from meters to feet and inches. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:58:20 -0400 >From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:41628] RE: AP Reporting >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >One can only hope! > >cm > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 13:46 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:41621] RE: AP Reporting > >A more recent list of results for Track and Field gives *distances only in >meters* followed by blank spaces. Can it be that an AP editor somewhere has >deleted non-metric units? > >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:44:51 -0400 >>From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: [USMA:41616] RE: AP Reporting >>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >> >>The Washington Post, thank God, is starting to do that, but they express it >>thus: >> >>(5.40) 17-8 1/2 >> >>Metric first, but unidentified, then the colonial units. They are probably >>showing metric because (1) these are the official results (2) that's what >>was fed to them by the source or (3) both. The AP Stylebook is probably >>requiring the wombat. >> >>Carleton >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >>Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:23 >>To: U.S. Metric Association >>Subject: [USMA:41612] AP Reporting >> >>My local newspaper gives meters first followed by feet, inches, and quarter >>inches for the pole vault. >
