2004 October 4
PBS Newshour
You people report on the airplane that flew high enough to win
a prize. You said it went up 65 miles.
What you did not say is that the prize is for going up 100 km
above the surface of the earth. Why do you play dumb? Is the
Newshour so limited that while the whole world talks kilometers,
the you keep us in our little private region of old measures,
in this case, miles?
The Christian Science Monitor can tell us kilometers. Why can't you?
The press is possibly the biggest factor in keeping the US from
using modern units, namely, metric units. The Associated Press
is especially bad. Is the Newshour trying to stay in bad company?
Robert Bushnell
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