wbur.org
support wbur today!
Listen to this story
Friday, March 7, 2008 at 10:00 AM EST
Week in the News
photo

American politics don’t get much more interesting than this week’s: Former First Lady comes back with a roar. Former POW clinches GOP nomination and goes arm-in-arm with super-unpopular GOP prez. Former golden boy Barack Obama pushed back into street fight, and Democrats look on in fear and wonder.

Further out, the news is almost too interesting. Oil, over the moon. Potemkin elections in Russia. Armies on the move in South America. Mideast woe, and markets looking jumpy all over.

This hour, On Point: our Friday news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

-Tom Ashbrook

Guests:

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation.

Jim Pinkerton, former columnist for Newsday and former contributor to Fox News Channel, he was a senior advisor to Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign and worked in the White House under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly.

 

Tags:

 
 

Comments are closed.

Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

Comments [10]
 
Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

Comments [132]
On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

More » | Comments [18]
 
Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.
It was part of an MIT event held on Thursday, Nov. 5, to commemorate computer science professor Michael Hammer, who died last year. Here’s video of the full interview, courtesy of WBUR.org:

Among other things, Schmidt said the possibilities [...]

More » | Comments [4]
 
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

More » | Comments [10]