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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

R.I.P. Tim Russert 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 6/17/2008 08:06:00 PM

i'm going to miss this guy. i really ddi enjoy meet the press and it was part of my sunday morning routine. russert was kind and always professional. if anything i gave him shit for being too lenient on certain people, republicans if you must, but it was the responsible way to approach every guest that i respected about him. most journalism is total crap and the rest is biased one way or the other. Tim Russert was the type of journalist who was not biased to any side. I'm going to quote a peter gammons article remembering big russ:

" Russert was a study for all of us who dabble in journalism, and I think it was Pat Buchanan who paid him the supreme compliment by saying that he never really knew Russert's political beliefs. Russert loved what he covered, and he loved people, and for those of us who believe that we have the right to like our subjects but do not have the right to dislike any of them, he defined fairness. He didn't scream. He didn't interrupt. He allowed those people he interviewed to speak their minds, and then he asked the appropriate questions, and he did so with respect and dignity, and knew too much to argue or to judge. Somehow he let his subjects know that this was all professional, neither personal nor agenda driven."

Peter Gammons is another person i respect in this way and it was awfully nice to see such a story written by one about the other. i'm generally more worried that gammons will drop at any minute but this week we lost a journalist of a different sport instead.

1 comments

yeah, this was a sad one. and it also goes a bit to your last post too, as russert was only 58.

very glad to hear that your dad is ok.

By  josh, at Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:17:00 PM  

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