Philosophical TIM RUSSERT DIES |
6-13-2008 2:07 PM |
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06132008/news/nationalnews/tim_russert_dies_from_apparent_heart_att_115384.htm
TIM RUSSERT DIES
By CHARLES HURT
June 13, 2008 --
Posted at 3:21 p.m.; Updated at 3:36 p.m.
Tim Russert, NBC journalist and political heavyweight host of "Meet the Press," has died after collapsing at NBC's Washington news bureau, a source said. He was 58 years old.
Russert, who rose from the inside world of politics where he was former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo's press secretary and one-time chief of staff to the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was able to successfully cross over to political journalism and rise to become one of its leading lights.
In his role as host of the seminal Sunday morning political program "Meet the Press" - which he took over in 1991 - he became renowned for his hard-nosed interviews where he frequently cornered some of Washington's cagiest political figures with tough questions.
Russert joined NBC News in 1984. In April 1985, he supervised the live broadcasts of the Today program from Rome, negotiating and arranging an appearance by Pope John Paul II - a first for American television. In 1986 and 1987 Russert led NBC News weeklong broadcasts from South America, Australia and China.
In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
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CRACKER This is sad news |
6-13-2008 2:15 PM |
RIP
I was just posting how the board seemed slow
This is sad news |
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pinky I was literally about to post this |
6-13-2008 2:19 PM |
| I was literally about to post this. Well.......what can I say a tragic loss R.I.P. |
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Baruchel I watched him almost every night |
6-13-2008 2:24 PM |
I watched him almost every night.
Another one gone
RIP |
BiLlyH9 He will be deeply missed. |
6-13-2008 3:14 PM |
| He was such a brilliant politico insider. And a great author. He will be deeply missed. |
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3HOURS May he rest in peace |
6-13-2008 7:59 PM |
| May he rest in peace. I always paid attention to what he had to say. |
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Xerox The rest of us are lucky to be alive. |
6-13-2008 8:23 PM |
I'm truly shocked. His passing has struck me like no other newscaster in recent times. I felt he was my friend.
He was a jolly fellow but knew how to be serious and frank. The rest of us are lucky to be alive.
Xerox |
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Xerox Special on Tim Russert on NBC right now |
6-13-2008 8:28 PM |
| Special on Tim Russert on NBC right now |
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MIDNIGHT STAR 8 I guess they knew he was special. |
6-13-2008 9:43 PM |
He actually did a special on his father, or himself and his family, growing up in -buffalo and that was interesting. Gosh, if nbc had allotted him the time for a show like that, I guess they knew he was special.
RIP |
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Hermit Tim was a devout Catholic, so to him I say |
6-14-2008 01:01 AM |
Aww, shucks. Such an unfortunate loss.
Tim was a bright spot in an otherwise dimly lit main stream media.
A giant redwood now gone from the political journalism landscape.
His analysis of the upcoming general election will be missed
as will his thoughtful questioning of the politicians involved.
[Tim was a devout Catholic, so to him I say..]
RIP; may your reunion with Big Russ be joyous. |
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InAndOut his McDonalds intake |
6-14-2008 07:26 AM |
Ok. Since the third minute he expired, every network has been covering this. Enough is enough.
I have nothing against the man, but let's move on and continue with the news.
It's not hard to imagine that a man of his weight, which has been consistent over the years, would not warrant an event like this.
To keep it simple, I am not shocked that he had a heart attack.
No one wants to hear that anyone has died. That always hurts the heart. However, we need to move on, as this probably could been prevented had he limited his McDonald's intake.......... |
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Gainsbarre Oh we need to move on do we |
6-14-2008 08:35 AM |
Oh we need to move on do we? Why because you're all annoyed and tired of hearing about it for 1 day??
Poor bubby....
Let's all be worried about how much you're being inconvenienced...
Gainsbarre
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ally very sad news |
6-14-2008 12:35 PM |
very sad news. I always looked forward to his commentary and you knew watching Meet the Press that you were getting the most up to date political debate. Sad news in politics.
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Ronen Very sorry to hear this news |
6-14-2008 1:16 PM |
| Very sorry to hear this news. Tim was one of my favorites and didn't hold back any punches. IMHO, he wasn't biased and I always thought he asked the pertinent questions that I would have asked. One of the few who would. A sad loss for journalism and my regrets go to his family and friends |
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Matt Who will do it now |
6-14-2008 2:40 PM |
Yeah, this is terrible. I watched quite a bit about him last night on MSNBC. This was a guy who asked hard questions of people in power, when others don't have the guts or credentials to do it.
Who will do it now?
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Philosophical LIVE YOUR LIFE |
6-14-2008 2:50 PM |
A Great Loss !
LIVE YOUR LIFE |
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Sori RIP. Very sad. |
6-14-2008 5:14 PM |
I heard this yesterday around 3 on my way home from work on ESPN Radio, I was in shock to say the least. I watched a lot of him back in the day during the coverage of the Gore/Bush presidential coverage and kept up with the hole vote counting sh*t and saw even more of him. That's really when I first discovered who he was and even though he was a liberal as pointed out on here, he seemed like a good guy and enjoyed his points of view even if I disagreed with them. I also remember him hosting some terrible shows on YES with all the greats reuniting. Anyway, RIP. Very sad.
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Giambi RIP Mr. Russert |
6-14-2008 5:34 PM |
His book is sitting on my desk right now waiting for me to read it.
I actually took out my Curb Your Enthusiasm DVDs and placed them on top of the book right around the time they said he suffered his heart attack.
RIP Mr. Russert.
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Mc7 My deepest condolences to the family of Tim Russer |
6-14-2008 7:35 PM |
My deepest condolences to the family of Tim Russert. My heart aches for them. From what I understand, he was very close to his family.
I feel incredibly sad about this. I remember Russert from his days working with/for Moynihan and Cuomo. Beyond willingness to ask hard questions and his skill as an interviewer, he was one of only a small number of journalists/interviewers who most people (regardless of their political persuasion) believed was a man of integrity and a man they could trust.
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!
~ William Butler Yeats
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Mc7 Gerald F. Seib reports on the death of Tim Russert |
6-14-2008 8:06 PM |
QUOTE
June 13, 2008, 6:22 pm
Tim Russert Set Standards
Wall Street Journal
Gerald F. Seib reports on the death of Tim Russert.
Tim Russert looked a little tired Friday morning, but nobody inside his studio at NBC news headquarters in Washington thought too much of it. He’d just gotten back from a quick trip to Rome to visit his son, who was on one of those do-it-while-you’re-young European tours.
He told me he had gotten just two hours of sleep on the plane. So he was entitled to look tired.
None of that stopped him from taping an hour-long conversation with John Harwood and me for his weekend MSNBC show about a new book we have just published. It’s a book Tim said he loved because it was about the inner workings of a capital and a political system he loved.
There were smiles and handshakes and pictures with Tim’s interns after our conversation ended, and John and I left saying to each other the same thing: That was the best interview we’ve done in a long string scheduled to promote our book.
A few hours later, Tim was dead, the victim of an unexpected heart attack.
The news went beyond shocking, and not just for those of us who were with him in his final hours. In losing Tim with no warning, nearly all of Washington understood in a moment just how large a figure he had grown to be at the intersection of politics and journalism that carries so much traffic within the nation’s capital.
Tim had set standards. He had shown how to hold politicians accountable for their own words and promises in a way that was both tough and fair. He reminded all of us on both sides of the journalism-politician divide, that the point of it all wasn’t to impress each other but to serve the viewer, the reader, the voter – the citizen. More than any journalist I know, in print or on air, Tim harkened back constantly to that central truth: politicians and those who cover them are responsible not to each other, but to the common audience of voters to whom they all spoke.
And somehow he did all that while making everybody – those who actually knew him and those who knew him only as a T.V. figure – see him as a good guy. Which he was.
As it happens, his son, Luke, and my oldest son are similar in age, have a similar love for baseball, and have the same Catholic background. So when it was time to pick a high school for our son, my wife and I called him who graciously and thoughtfully walked us through how he and his wife had made that same decision. It was obvious that Luke occupied a bigger part of his life than anything having to do with T.V., politics or Washington.
And indeed this son of Buffalo was a regular guy til the end. Friday morning, as we prepared for what turned out to be his final interview, the NBC makeup crew was concerned that he hadn’t had time to get a haircut, meaning his hair was curling about his ears as we prepared to open his show. I smiled inside. Of all the things Tim might be worried about, that was never likely to be one of them. |
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