Said that should be a book . Yes. I read up article 10 years ago about how in a very shortly in the early 21st century more households in america will be supported by women and thats a giant flop, i mean a giant change. It made me want to explore what the implications of that might be for many women, for marriag marriages, for children, for love, for courtship and i got a great book out of it. What was the book lacks. It was written by a terrific Washington Post reporter who is now at the new America Foundation in washington. It generated, it landed on the cover of a magazine and it generated a huge conversation about how do we all need to adjust our lives to this economic new reality and is this good . I think we were in the camp of yes, anything that makes couples stronger and live up, live up to their potential is a good thing. One of the authors or pair of authors that you worked with for nancy gibbs and Michael Duffy on a book that booktv covered in our q a program covered it as w
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the early sunday morning to the brooklyn book festival being hosted here at Brooklyn Law School. Our dean nick allard is here to welcome you. That dean has been a really wonder for bridge between the law school in brooklyn and the brooklyn book festival. Its on like to introduce nick allard to you all. [applause] thank you, professor. Well, welcome to all of you. Were so proud to be able to host part of the largest free letter very festival in new york city in one of the largest in the United States. It certainly is the hippest and most diverse book festival. So weve got that working for us. Also, welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Some of you know were the only law school in brooklyn. [laughter] but, you know, we are the best law school in the largest and most vibrant borough in the greatest city in the leading state in the most wonderful country. So we have that working force. Its pretty good. Yesterday, marla and i returned from a short trip to r
Well get to race and the gop in just a moment. But first, the latest on the supertyphoon in the philippines. Officials say the storm may have killed as many as 10,000 people in one town alone. Another city reported 300 dead and more than 2,000 missing. But the death toll is expected to keep on climbing as rescue crews reach remote villages cut off by massive flooding. Officials say at least six of the islands in the philippines were seriously damaged when the typhoon brought winds of more than 170 miles an hour and 20feet storm surges. In one province, the storm destroyed 70 to 80 of all structures in its path. And the provinces capital city, tacloban, has been devastated. And thats where nbcs angus walker is this morning. Reporter this is tacloban airport, which was completely destroyed by the supertyphoon. Its now a place where thousands of people have come, hoping to be rescued and the filipino air force is flying in, transport aircraft taking people away. The old, the young, the si
The media and says and lectures them about dont print any more rumors, dont print anything that is not official fact or not official war news or not something thats either coming from the white house or from the war department. He really lays into the media in a radio broadcast from the white house a couple days after. Which, by the way, i want to make one point, too, is that as far as the media goes, we all think the First Official pronouncement of, from the government or from roosevelt or from the Roosevelt White house was december 8, 1941 was his speech in congress. Thats not true. Eleanor roosevelt gave the first broadcast from the position of the roosevelt family and in many ways the position of the national government. She had a regular radio show, and of course she had her column, my day, and she went on National Radio the night of december 7th and talked about it was about morale, it was about her own four sons, one who at that point was on a ship at sea. Eventually, all four b
Gaithersburg maryland. This hourlong program is next on both tv. Today we are welcoming anna holmes the founder of the web site jezebel in conversation with john. John is written for many Media Outlets including the New York Times buzzfeed. His novel focuses your captain speaking is a highspeed satirical commentary about celebrity obsession and how Corporate America has learned to capitalize on it. We asked john to speak to and that today since he wrote a satire about 24hour days seven days a week media and not for a while anyway was the 24hour seven days a week media. And the homes founded the web site jezebel in 2007 to provide an on line presence for women by women about everything that women care about. Just about drove deep into nittygritty subjects that are covered by todays media. This includes everything from conversations about rape on College Campuses to scathing criticism on equal pay legislation to the pressing needs about beyonces personal life and fashion choices. The edi