OT: Tim Russert Dead at 58

Gerhalt11 · Post #1 » by **Gerhalt11** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:56 pm

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.
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Tim Russert joined NBC in 1984 and established himself as the face of the network's political coverage.

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.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/13/tim.russert/index.html

A legendary newsman with the class and presence of Murrow and Cronkite. He will be missed.

thefranchise2k5 · Post #2 » by **thefranchise2k5** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:00 pm

It's really sad. He was such a hard worker. I think he worked himself too hard and then took a vacation and it caught up to him. He was such a loving family man and he got to see his son graduate from college at least. He was also a passionate Buffalo Bills fan and a great man of the Buffalo community.

This sounds really bad but last week I made a very dark joke saying "Well Big Brown may have lost, but I had money on Jim McKay dying so I made out okay. My money is on Tim Russert dying next." No joke, I was just playing around, I love Tim Russert and the work he does and it had no real basis, just the first name that came to my mind.

I guess im a prophet of bad news. :cry:

richboy · Post #3 » by **richboy** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:03 pm

Thats very very sad. One of my favorite guys on the news.

macdalejax · Post #4 » by **macdalejax** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:22 pm

richboy wrote:Thats very very sad. One of my favorite guys on the news.

RIP Mr. Tim Russert. You will be missed.

Bucs80 · Post #5 » by **Bucs80** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:00 pm

His Death seemed so random

R.I.P. dude

darthcheech2000 · Post #6 » by **darthcheech2000** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:17 pm

We have lost one of the best Journalists we will ever know.

Truly a sad day

spinedoc · Post #7 » by **spinedoc** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:46 pm

Its an unbelievably huge loss. I always looked forward to watching him moderate Meet the Press every Sunday morning. He was hard, but fair. Given our 24hr network news these days, he really stood out. We are slowly loosing great reporters and being replaced by ignorant, opinionated, talking heads. Ted Koppel was another favorite of mine on Nightline before he left, now its so soft a fluffy. I'm literally down to John Stewart on Comedy Central, C-Span, and a little bit of Bill Moyers on PBS, and thats about it. The rest is real garbage anymore. Its a sad sad day.

Post #8 » by **UCFJayBird** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:22 am

darthcheech2000 wrote:We have lost one of the best Journalists we will ever know.

Truly a sad day

agreed. He was one of my favorite journalist, if not my favorite. RIP Tim. We'll miss you.

Post #9 » by **craig01** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:30 am

RiP.

A great journalist.

Post #10 » by **SOUL** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:57 am

Post #11 » by **SD2042** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:11 am

RIP. Russert was definately one of the good ones at doing his job well.