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Monday, October 12, 2009 at 10:00 am

The Swine Flu vaccine rolls out. We’ll look at vaccination questions and where the flu is now.

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Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 10:00 am

Swine flu, H1N1, is surprisingly resilient, and could be back with a vengeance this fall. We’ll look at preparedness, from Washington to our local schools.

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Friday, May 1, 2009 at 10:00 am

Pandemic fever. Arlen Specter joins the Democrats. Chrysler in bankruptcy. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 10:00 am

The swine flu began in Mexico, flew to New Zealand, landed in New York, Kansas, California. Now the world’s defenses are up. We’ll get the latest.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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