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experiences. >> "washington journal"ñ >  ñ q continues. host: marion blakey is the former faa administrator from 2002-2007, current the ceo of aerospace industries associated. let's begin with this headline in the "wall street journal." down at the end of the article, from someone who served on the safety board. he goes on to say this, science is very consistent about the importance of permitting naps of abruptly -- of roughly half an hour to help controllers feel more alert. what is your take on this? guest: the key thing...

eventually joining abc news. she shares her story with nia-malika henderson of the "washington post". >> host: welcome, so great to have you here. >> guest: nice to see you. >> host: you wrote your book, and i want to ask you why you decided to write the book? >> guest: because i had a 40-yearlong career in broadcast journalism, and i don't think anyone else in history has that distinction, and i wanted to tell my story because i thought it had lessons. i thought it had pain. i thought it had humor. i've had lots of experiences, and i just wanted to put them down, and i left abc not ...

but for the time being, it's taking up a lot of space in the world of writing. >> you still do a column. >> it is still being printed. i write for some websites and for the "daily beast." it lives up to its name. >> what do you think of the blogs? >> i think they are garbage. what they really turned out to be is -- if we were unfortunate enough to have a recording of what people talked about when they had ham radio, when that was the trend, those conversations would be as interesting as much of what you see on blogs. people do not know what they are talking about most of the time. am...

a couple of weeks ago in chicago. taves smiley had another one of his tavice smiley presents and an old friend of yours -- i want to run a little bit of what you said. and your reaction. >> in the age of o booma, there is a lot of confusion. because to have a black in a high place easily leads us to forget so many folks stuck in the house. we forget about the least of the -- so we put pressure on our pressure. loving pressure but we already see that any president is -- has a tremendous pressure from the strong, the corporate elite, the wall street -- and can easily push obama i...

for the "daily beast." >> what you think of the blogs? >> i think they are garbage. what they really turned out to be is -- if we were unfortunate enough to have a recording of what people talk about when they had ham radio, when that was the trend, both conversations would be as interesting as much of what you see on blogs. people do not know what they are talking about most of the time. americans always have a lot of time to waste, and the internet is proof of the fact of how much time we have to waste, because the sheer intensity that people bring to it, it is kind of like if peop...