It always seems like the media likes to glorify the dead, especially right when someone dies.*
It’s already happening all over the news about Tim Russert who, it seems, died sometime in the last hour when I changed the channel from CNN to the Food Network for an hour block of Diners, Drive In’s and Dives. I’m glad that getting the respectful treatment right now. Like him or not: the guy had class.
I’ve started watching Meet The Press when Russert took over and I’ve rarely missed a Sunday. Sometimes he made me angry, sometimes he made me laugh, but he made me watch, week after week.
(CNN) — Tim Russert, who became one of America’s leading political journalists as the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” died Friday, according to the network. He was 58.
The network said Russert suffered a heart attack while at work and could not be revived. He had just returned from a family vacation in Italy to celebrate the graduation of his son, Luke, from Boston College.
Russert joined the network in 1984 and quickly established himself as the face of the network’s political coverage.
In 1985 he supervised live broadcasts of the “Today” show from Rome, negotiating an appearance by Pope John Paul II — a first for American television.
He took the helm of “Meet the Press” in 1991, turning the long-running Sunday-morning interview program into the most-watched show of its kind in the United States.
Washingtonian Magazine once dubbed Russert the best and most influential journalist in Washington, describing “Meet the Press” as “the most interesting and important hour on television.”
In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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I’m really going to miss Russert on Sunday mornings.
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* After Princess Diana died, I had to give up on MSNBC. I called it the Dead Celebrity News Network and didn’t watch it again until Olberman got Countdown.
