Journalistic standards

Ms. Sheyla Hershey has breast implants. In an uncredited (?) story from Fox 29 in Philadelphia, the anonymous author writes, "Sheyla's implants are filled with a thousand CCs or two quarts of silicone."

I'm pretty sure my readership is literate. So you know that 1000 cc = 1 liter = 1.06 quarts. In fact, the abbreviation "cc" has been obsolete for decades in science and engineering (though I have no idea if that's equally true in medicine).

There was a day when people in journalism had at least the minimal education needed to recognize common units used in supermarkets. Has the unnamed reporter never bought a 2 liter bottle of soda? Compared it to a quart bottle of, say, ketchup?