mark whitaker, welcome.you were a young pup and started at "newsweek," your editor said maybe if you worked really hard one day you could be a senior editor at the magazine. what but say? >> i said, well, half joking, what about the top editor? and this was in 1979. i was just graduating from college. i had done a couple of internships at "newsweek." he said to me, well, "newsweek" isn't ready for a black editor. maybe someday but not now. >> how did that make you feel? >> well, i thought it was actually realistic. i was full of beans a little bit, had just graduated from harvard, done well in internships. he was right at the time. and eventually i became the editor of "newsweek," but it took 20 years. >> when it happened, before i was associated with the musician when its was owned by the "washington post" company, every time you were mentioned in the article, at least in the begin, it was first african-american editor of a major news magazine. were you proud of that, or did it also bother you on some level

mark whittaker, former editor of "newsweek" and managing editor of cnn. i don't read a lot of memoirs, but this one is really fascinating. starts out as if it is a story about race in america. whitaker'sr is white. but it is really a much more universal story about the relationship between a son and his parents. whitaker is a great journalist, so the research is impeccable, and it's beautifully written. really worth getting. now for the last look. if niro fiddled while rome burned, silvio berlusconi has been singing while the city, indeed the entire country collapses. it's been a tough week for the cruise ship crooner-turned-businessman- turned italian prime minister. but don't be sad for silvio. he's already lined up his next gig. ♪ >> in just a few weeks, he'll release his fourth musical album. this one is called "true love." if his previous albums are any indication, he's