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NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58.
A lot of journalists find it hard to balance objectivity with holding people accountable. Russert seemed to excel at it, especially recently. He wasn't perfect, but he was at the top of his game, certainly a voice of reason in an increasingly polarized field. A severe and painful loss to the industry, to politics and to American discourse.
A lot of journalists find it hard to balance objectivity with holding people accountable. Russert seemed to excel at it, especially recently. He wasn't perfect, but he was at the top of his game, certainly a voice of reason in an increasingly polarized field. A severe and painful loss to the industry, to politics and to American discourse.
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He was a terrible, terrible journalist. I'm not going to cheer his death, because the guy had a family that loved him and it's not like he was Hitler or anything. But he didn't do his job well by any reasonable standard, and his undeserved reputation for being "tough" only further trivialized American political coverage.