[USMA:41135] Associated Press Style Guide is working against us.

[Michael Palumbo]

I met a nice young lady over the weekend who is a reporter for the 
Burlington County Times in southern New Jersey.  She informed me, during 
the course of our discussion, that she must write in English/Customary 
units, as metric is not allowed by the AP style guides.

I asked if she could send me some text of it, here's what I just 
received from her.

"Hey Mike,

This is from the 2007 AP stylebook, you have to be a member to search 
the online version:

For U.S. members, use metric terms only in situations where they are 
universally accepted forms of measurement (16 mm film) or where the 
metric distance is an important number in itself: "He vowed to walk 100 
kilometers (62 miles) in a week."



Seems even if reporters wanted to write in metric, they couldn't, or 
their editors would have to change it to get it run by the AP.

Ideas?

-Mike