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POPSMSNBC's Network Chief Down Plays The Personal Bickering The sudden death this summer of NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, who made frequent appearances on MSNBC, removed a political and temperamental rudder for the network. Mr. Griffin has tried to fill the power vacuum since, struggling to shepherd the network's big personalities through a period of transition. The network drew 2.15 million viewers on its first night of convention coverage, 88% more than tuned in for the first night of the 2004 Democratic convention, according to Nielsen Media Research. MSNBC also beat Fox News among younger viewers that night. Fox News is owned by News Corp., which also owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.network's chief played down the
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POPSBig Russ & Me I just started reading this and I really like it so far. Anyone else read it? What are your thoughts?
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POPSThe Russert Send Off I always thought he came across as sort of "milk toast." Post mortem, I could not recognize the guy these Elites were talking about.
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POPSThe Truth about Tim Russert.. I agree with Cockburn completely Tim Russert was for me a goon for this discredited Administration and responsible for the deaths of thousands much much younger than he...
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POPStim russert just reading everything i can about this amazing man - i watched meet the press every sunday morning!
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POPSMatthews Promotes Russert to Master 9/11 Gatekeeper! Of all the endless possibilities, Matthews chose to memorialize Russert for some uncanny and privileged insight into the truth about what happened on September 11th. Wow, just like that, on the morning of 911, Tim Russert KNEW the motivations of a whole group of incinerated hijackers. That’s really fantastic. He also KNEW the planes had enough fuel to melt the girders of the World Trade towers. He just KNEW the temperature of burning jet fuel, and he KNEW the melting temperature of steel. Tim Russert was not only a mind reader of the dead, but an undeclared expert in aviation practices and thermal physics. I’m impressed. FULL ARTICLE HERE: http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/20-regs-thoughts/2257-matthews-promotes-russert-to-master-911-gatekeeper
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POPSRussert's massive heart attack. People have to die from something. Sooner or later. Nobody can avoid the end. Tim Russert was exposed to the dangers of our modern life as nobody other. Journalism itself, politic, traveling, long work day, stress of high level of management, some routine health problems and lifestyle. May be some of these components were too excessive. A kind of dissonance from harmony.
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POPSTIM RUSSERT- The last of Big Media Pundits A very sad day, when those who believe in truth die so early. Great sadness for his family. A huge loss for media and democracy. Truly one of the last. Ted Coppel resigned over the war and his personal, initial enthusiasm. This man stood firm on principles. Even if we did not agree on some.
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POPSTim Russert, Tough And Fair In the middle of a voice-over, NBC’s Tim Russert slumped over and was gone. The rumors had been buzzing around Washington D.C. for hours, until Tom Brokaw appeared on the Peacock network and confirmed the news. Every journalist that I’ve spoken with is shocked and slack-jawed. The broadcast lion seemed unstoppable; an irresistible force that would never meet its immovable object. Others who knew him better will talk about personal grace and his unegoistical connections to ordinary people, about his love of his family, his church and his Buffalo Bills. I want to remind you of his public qualities. He was two things that most Washington journalists are not: tough and fair. Among some Catholics, there is a convention when someone passes out of this life and into the next. They say he has “gone home.”
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POPSChris Matthews' Russert Eulogy: Like a Belch in Church In an uncharacteristic moment of staggering truth, Mr. Olbermann then paraphrased news doyen Barbara Walters in noting, "This is a loss for the country. This is a loss in terms of the ability to get information from an honest broker -- someone who managed a neutrality that the rest of us dream of, perhaps. How big is that gap that we have now seen opened today...How big is the loss, and how on earth is the American public going to fill it in terms of getting the information it needs for the vital choices ahead?" Mr. Matthews wisely dodged the query, perhaps because the answer is painfully obvious. Having the Olbermann-Matthews dynamic duo discuss this valid question would qualify as satire of the highest order.
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