Different Brian Williams. The Brian Williams on NBC was born in Elmira, NY and grew up in Middletown, NJ. During the Vancouver Olympics, he did a skit with the Canadian Brian Williams
>From Wikipedia, On February 22, 2010, while providing coverage of the Winter Olympics, Williams did a skit with Brian Williams, the Canadian sportscaster of CTV <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_Sports> 's on the CTV Olympic set. Some in the media dubbed this the new "Battle of the Brians," as NBC's Williams compared his own modest set to CTV's expensive Olympic studio. Phil From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 12:09 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:54163] Re: NBC News Interesting in that Brian Williams was originally news presenter on CTV in the 1970s, 80s and possibly into the 90s, and is (or was) a Canadian citizen, before ‘defecting’ to the USA. He should be at least familiar with the metric system, and should know enough about it to not be at least surprised about seeing it being used. John F-L From: Mark Henschel <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:42 PM To: U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:54160] Re: NBC News Yes, indeed, and I couldn't believe my ears. I had actually written Brian Williams 20 or 30 years ago, I can't remember anymore, about please more use of the Metric System in the media. I think I wrote all of the news anchors at the same time, and of course my letters were ignored. But to hear a doctor say on Nightly News that it is time to embrace the Metric System, in front of millions of people, well, I practically fell out of my chair. Sadly, Brian Williams was not bright enough to see the full implications of the advantages of a Metric America (A Decision whose Time has Come). He kind of backtracked when he said "At least in this area." Maybe we could get some positive twitter feeds of facebook posts out of this and encourage the news media in general to take a more positive viewpoint on increasing metric usage in the media in general. Mark Henschel On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> wrote: Did you catch it? On tonight's (July 15) NBC TV world news with Brian Williams, there was a piece on the medication screw-ups with mL, teaspoons, tablespoons, etc. discussed. At the end the NBC staff MD, Nancy Snyderman (sp?) finished up by telling people to exclusively use syringe-like liquid medicine dispensers marked in mL, and "I think it is time to switch to the metric system." Williams added, "At least for this purpose". HARRY WYETH No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4716 / Virus Database: 3986/7861 - Release Date: 07/16/14
