Tim Russert: 1950 – 2008 « The Errant Æsthete

Tim Russert: 1950 – 2008

Like a lot of people still in the throes of staggering disbelief, I expect to turn on the television next Sunday morning to watch Meet the Press and see Tim Russert presiding. The idea that he won’t be there is unimaginable. His death is a loss to journalism, politics, standards, and perhaps, most important of all — how to live your life, fully and well. He had his critics, of course, many of them congregated around Walter Shapiro’s piece, “Tim Russert, One of the Good Guys” at Salon, dissecting, dismembering and dancing on his grave. (Sadly, snark leads the way in the immediacy of the internet).

In these last months with his coverage of the presidential primaries, he seemed to be everywhere, familiar and ubiquitous as any friend or family member. As Mark Leibovich noted in the New York Times on first hearing of Russert’s death “There are certain days when you can feel the air sucking out of Washington’s giant hot-air balloon, and Friday was one of them.” The coverage has been boundless and pervasive. This from MSNBC. From John Meacheam, editor of Newsweek, “God, Politics and the Making of a Joyful Warrior,” From Howard Fineman, “The Gold Standard.“

Chris Matthews, a colleague and friend said, “I loved his company” and as one MSNBC driver noted of Russert, who he regularly drove to appointments, “I don’t have a single bad memory of him.” Any one of us can only hope to have the same said about us.

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~ by Errant Aesthete on 06/16/08.

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