After retiring to France 7 years ago I subscribed to the Washington Post for a
few years, then the New York times for a year and have been trying to find a
decent English language newspaper that does not censor out metric units,
particularly annoying when it’s a scientific article where the original unit
was metric. The BBC is a total mish mash of units even in the same program,
apparently it’s in their manual of style to be inclusive to everyone. Mostly
though, I find the website new-light with nothing substantive.
Yesterday I came across the AP website
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They have been the bogeyman for the metric reader and were supposedly the
reason US newspapers never included metric as they used the AP Style guide.
I’ve now read a few articles and found the AP includes metric units in most
articles, even US ones, it’s apparently the editor's of US newspapers that are
filtering out the metric units in AP articles.
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Some articles don’t include metric, this container ship
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was apparently three and a half football fields long (the only measurement), I
had to check this out on Wikipedia, it’s 396 metres long, I’m not sure which
football field is 113m long. American football is 91,44 m, Association Football
played worldwide is 105 m long.
But in general I’m please to see that the Associated Press includes metric in
articles.
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Mike Payne
France
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