And rewarding job and that his grandmother. Leslies new book becoming grandma the joys and science of new grandparenting x. Lawyers how becoming a grandparent has truly transformed. We will talk about that book today and a little bit more about lesleys amazing career but please help me welcome lesley stahl. [applause] before we get to the book i want to ask a question about your colleague morley safer who officially announced on wednesday that he is stepping down from 60 minutes after 40 plus years. Tell us your thoughts on morley. Theres a sadness when people who wear the heart and soul of 60 minutes almost from the beginning leave. Morally, Everybody Knows like the offbeat stories. He has done the signature stories of 60 minutes, the kind with peace where you say wow no one else could do a story like that. Yet a twinkle in his eyes. He was a beautiful whimsical writer writer sometimes pretty darn i see it on television. And i have known him since he was cbs bureau chief in london in
Transformation of dictionaries or the complete transformation of lexicography in the english language. Anyone whos read the professor in the mad men, you can remember the descriptions of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the mid 19th century. There were read arers all over readers all over the world who would submit little files, and eventually those usages, wherever the dictionary was revised which was about every 80 years, would make it into the next round. So it took an incredibly long time to update new meanings of worse. Of course, now its of words. Of course, now its online, and now you have crowd sourcing and people reporting tweets or web sites x its led to this kind of massive democratization of language in this really interesting way. Its also led the oed to have to go back and relearn whole words that, you know, with all of the newspapers online now you can discover usages that no one had ever possibly heard of the last time the dictionary was revised. So it reall
Guest this is our first year for exhibiting and for me attending bookconker but were very excited to have a chance to interact directly with readers and have them come and see our authors signings its a lot of great stuff to see the interaction of readers. Were watching right now we see book bloggers are interacting with their fans, so its happening on a lot of levels. Host and because bookexpo is just for publishers and related industries. Guest right, right. Through our retailers. Were always dealing with the public but this is new, to really try to have direct interaction with readers. Host jamie raab. Guest this is my first time here, but i was amazed when i saw the lines of people. Its thrilling to think that people care enough about books to come to Something Like this pay money, get to see the authors. I think its fantastic. Host what is Grand Central publishing . Guest well right now we have a signing, we have an author named meredith wylde who wrote a series of erotic books ra
Solution again, im not going to penalize that, them for that at all. I think the fact is, as you said with Technology Particularly were in Different Office locations anyway. So often theres really no way i would know if someone was calling me from connecticut or from uptown. But at the same time, i think there is the reality of the fact that we also, the work that we do is very much people work. Its theres a lot of our work that just is not when everybodys on a conference call, the quality of the ideas and interaction that come out are not necessarily as good in my experience as when we are sitting around a table looking each other in the eye. And so i would tend more towards being very flexible in terms of helping somebody get through particular issues that they may have to deal with that might be short term, but in general i really like for the people who are working together on a team to actually be there together physically for the most part. Yeah. I mean, i would agree. I have som
Patrons. First, headlines from my radio cohost carol massar. Lets check out some of the headlines, cbs out with earnings today. First quarter earnings beat estimates. Profits rising to 70 cents per share. Meantime, gas is rising hosting preliminary firstquarter profits that beat estimates. Gap was helped by a gain in april sales. Time warner shareholders will get one share of time for every share of time warner they hold as of may 23. Thanks very much. Now we move from time warner to Time Warner Cable in washington today. A comcast deal once again coming under congressional scrutiny. The providers made the case for their merger fighting antitrust claims and defending the benefit to consumers. Yang yang joins us with some of the highlights. What happened . Well, clocking in at four hours, we heard plenty of good arguments from both sides for and against the merger. It was david cohen who had the most face time, the most time at the microphone defending the merger. He is a pro at these h