CSPAN2 Booknotes December 21, 2013
Why did you call your new book the girls in the balcony . The balcony is a wise about any of the National Press club. The institution until just 20 years ago. And win in 1955 the men decided that they would let anyone into cover to report on events, they put it in a very narrow, extremely uncomfortable about any at the far end of the ball room. Guest but just 20 years ago i was standing this that balcony. We could not ask questions, we were not allowed. It was, um, it was frustrating. And so one of the three women in the New York Times bureau told Scotty Rustin one day that she would not go th...