2002-10-26 Yesterday, CNN had an interview with someone. I wasn't paying particular attention to the program, but my attention was caught for the moment when the person being interviewed spoke the term "60 yards".
A news reporter may use metres, because he/she is just reading off of a paper or a teleprompter. But, guests and "experts" who are often interviewed will use whatever units they feel comfortable using. And most often if it a person on the street, you can be guaranteed that FFU is the measurement of choice. Even though the army may use and train using metres, some may mentally convert those metres to yards. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ezra Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-10-25 21:17 Subject: [USMA:22930] Re: SI reference on CNN > Also, can our Canadian friends report on how the media there reported > distances? I'm curious ... > Ezra > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:39:05 -0700, "Nikolay O. Malyarov" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >RE: Caught alleged sniper in the Washington area. > > > > > >"Muhammad earned an M-16 expert marksman badge during his service in the > > >Army, the highest level of expertise given by the military, defense > > >officials at the Pentagon said. > > > > > >That means he had to hit 36 out of 40 targets at a range of about 50 to > > >300 meters." > > >[http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/South/10/24/sniper.shootings/index.html] > > > > > >I originally heard this just a minute ago in a televised report. No > > >conversion to ifp was ever done. > > > > You might like to look at how the BBC reported the story: > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2356271.stm > > > > Chris > > > > -- > > UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/ > >
