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here is what flyers at reagan airport tell us about their concerns getting on a boeing jet. is that something you would think about may be more then you used to? yes. i specifically booked these flights. why? to avoid boeing. obviously it is something that is a problem to some degree but there still trust in the system. this week the head of the faa says boeing has a long road ahead to get where it needs to be from a safety standpoint but as you saw there, john, and you see in the numbers, it s not deterring people from getting on planes, they are flying this memorial day weekend. john? john: they sure are and driving too. thank you, grady. have a good memorial day. center? two stores down they are having a ball two doors down sandra: now i m truly feeling we are just hours away from the unofficial kickoff to summer memorial day weekend 2024. i do not know how we got to this weekend so fast, john, but it s here. hello and welcome everyone i am ....
best-selling author, tom friedman. [inaudible conversations]. from the failing new york times, the truth is, that the times succeed on some fronts. and the central reason is that it is home to outstanding journalists, a standout among them, is tom friedman. [applause] you may have noticed in the program that there is a photo that purports to be tom friedman. you know, tom is young but looks like he is accelerating in reverse in that photo. tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing thorough research and speaking to people in every station of life, and walk of life around the planet. the result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark and aggression we encounter so often in today s media universe. what we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. they are the products of real reporting and serious reflection, themselves, all too rare. those qualities can be found, could be found in tom s previous best-selling books, you can ....
on behalf of everybody at p and p and the staff here at sixth&i welcome. you know we and pnp have been doing jointly sponsored author talks for a number of years. as much as we would have liked to have had you at our store on connecticut avenue, you just all would not have fit. so we really are very excited to be able to use this spacious and very beautiful and comfortable setting for author talks like the one this evening. and what a treat to have thomas friedman with us. and i m sure you re familiar with his columns of the new york times in his books. note how great explain on just about everything he is. you can cut through the complexity of something and write about them as clearly as tom can.he says that the start of his new book that he went into journalism in part because he loves translating from english to english. and that has been evident in his work. when he focuses on in his new book, thank you for being late. our several portions that he singled out as def ....
tom: it comes from meeting people for breakfast in washington, d.c.. every once in a while, somebody will come late. one day about three years ago, him,iend peter, i said to thank you for being late. because you are late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversations. i have been people watching the lobby. most importantly, i just conducted that s connected with ideas i have been struggling. people started to get into it. i washey understood, giving them to slow down and rethink and reflect. my favorite quote in the opening chapter comes from my friend. he says, when you press the pause button on a computer, it stops. when you press because you on a human being, it start. boy, do we need to do a lot of that. charlie: what stage of acceleration? withit explains begins me explaining to my parking garage attendant how to write a column. if the world as a data set, this is my ogre rhythm. a new story is meant to inform. i can write about the show and inform. a column i ....
tom: it comes from meeting people for breakfast in washington, d.c. every once in a while, somebody will come late. they would say i am really sorry. one day about three years ago, i spontaneously said to my friend peter, i said to him, thank you for being late. because you were late, i have been eavesdropping on their conversations. i have been people-watching the lobby. most importantly, i just connected ideas i have been struggling with for a month. people started to get into it. what they understood, i was giving them to slow down and rethink and reflect. my favorite quote in the opening chapter comes from my friend. he says, when you press the pause button on a computer, it stops. but when you press because you on a human being, it starts. it reflects, re-thinks, r e-imagines. boy, do we need to do a lot of that. charlie: what stage of acceleration? tom: the book begins with me explaining to my parking garage attendant how to write a column. the first chapter is re ....