Well, I might have been too quick to blame the reporter or the AP Style Guide. Once again, it is "investigative reporting" of a press release. Here is a link to the "Policy Briefer" by UCLA and the authors: http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/files/Soda%20PB%20FINAL%203-23-09.pdf It is all fluid ounces and gallons, teaspoons and pounds of sugar. The calorie is the most metric unit used in the whole paper.
--- On Wed, 10/14/09, John M. Steele <[email protected]> wrote: From: John M. Steele <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [USMA:46017] gallons of soda To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:14 AM While not print media, they probably use the AP Style Guide. The AP is dedicated to preventing Americans from seeing those nasty, metric words (even when the metric is required by law and the more sensible measure). --- On Wed, 10/14/09, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:46017] gallons of soda To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 8:45 AM NPR's Morning Edition just aired a story about obesity, read the fluid ounce figure from a liter bottle, and stated a statistic about the consumption of soda in gallons. Since soda has been sold in two-liter bottles for almost as long as I can remember, how can they expect Americans, even those who don't know their own height in meters, to understand gallons of soda? Pierre
