>> hinojosa: coming up on one on one: national public radio host diane rehm talks about growing up arab-american, her battle with spasmodic dysphonia, and the importance of finding her voice. >> i think there are those who say, "you go, girl. you hang in there and you keep doing it because you represent what all of us are." >> hinojosa: diane rehm, it is such an honor to have you on our show. >> and a real pleasure for me to be here. >> hinojosa: you have a way of conducting your interviews that is just so intimate, so special. people probably hear you on national public radio, on your talk show, across the country. and u've written a couple of books now, several books, three books. >> three books. >> hinojosa: finding my voice, which i just love as a title, is your story of kind of how you ended up where you are now. >> it's a story of how i began as the child of immigrants who believed that young children should be seen and not heard, who should never ask, "why?" so the fact that i am doing the daily interviews, maria, asking anybody and everybody... >> hinojosa: anything? >> anything, and why

i can remember about 20 years ago -- i was doing, i think, "the diane rehm show", and a call came in, a young woman, and she was very upset that a she didn't feel she was finding, getting the information she needed to be a responsible citizen. and i suddenly remember saying to her, you know, diet books, diet books are big. i think i should become a media diet, write a media diet book, you see? i'd ask you, i only need to know three things. i only need to know how much money you're willing to spend on your media, how much time you're willing to give to it and what your interests are. and i could put together a diet for you. because there's lots of stuff out there. nice idea. today we do that. we do that. i do it, you do it, we all do it. we know what's in the computer, we know the aggregators that we like to go into it, we know the special columnists we go into, we are our own editors. it was always the problem was not for people like you, frankly. that's what this first book showed as well. because there was always news out there. the problem was for the people who only had an opportu