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As a journalist, he is one of my heroes, and I'm really sad about this. Our country needed him.<br><br>Keely<br><br><br><br><br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:43:41 +0000<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Tim Russert Died<br>> <br>> Tim Russert, one of the most balanced newsmen I have ever had the <br>> privilege of watching or listening to, has died.<br>> <br>> -------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> >From NBC News at:<br>> <br>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25145431/<br>> <br>> ---------<br>> <br>> NBC's Tim Russert dead at 58 <br>> <br>> Washington bureau chief, ‘Meet the Press’ moderator collapsed on job<br>> BREAKING NEWS<br>> NBC News and MSNBC<br>> updated 1:28 p.m. PT, Fri., June. 13, 2008<br>> <br>> WASHINGTON - Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the <br>> moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after being stricken at the <br>> bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58. <br>> <br>> Russert was recording voiceovers for Sunday’s “Meet the Press” broadcast <br>> when he collapsed, the network said. <br>> <br>> He had recently returned from Italy, where his family was celebrating the <br>> graduation of Russert’s son, Luke, from Boston College. <br>> <br>> No further details were immediately available. <br>> <br>> Russert was best known as host of “Meet the Press,” which he took over in <br>> December 1991. Now in its 60th year, “Meet the Press” is the longest-<br>> running program in the history of television. <br>> <br>> But he was also a vice president of NBC News and head of its overall <br>> Washington operations, a nearly round-the-clock presence on NBC and MSNBC <br>> on election nights. <br>> <br>> He was “one of the premier political journalists and analysts of his <br>> time,” Tom Brokaw, the former longtime anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” said <br>> in announcing Russert’s death. “This news division will not be the same <br>> without his strong, clear voice.” <br>> <br>> In 2008, Time Magazine named Russert him one of the 100 most influential <br>> people in the world. <br>> <br>> Timothy John Russert Jr. was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 7, 1950. He was <br>> a graduate of Canisius High School, John Carroll University and the <br>> Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He was a member of the bar in New York <br>> and the District of Columbia. <br>> <br>> Senate staffer before entering journalism<br>> After graduating from law school, Russert went into politics as a staff <br>> operative. In 1976, he worked on the Senate campaign of Daniel Patrick <br>> Moynihan, D-N.Y., and in 1982, he worked on Mario Cuomo’s campaign for <br>> governor of New York. <br>> <br>> Russert joined NBC News in 1984. In April 1985, he supervised the live <br>> broadcasts of NBC’s TODAY show from Rome, negotiating and arranging an <br>> appearance by Pope John Paul II, a first for American television. In 1986 <br>> and 1987, Russert led NBC News’ weeklong broadcasts from South America, <br>> Australia and China. <br>> <br>> Of his background as a Democratic political operative, Russert said, “My <br>> views are not important.” <br>> <br>> “Lawrence Spivak, who founded ‘Meet the Press,’ told me before he died <br>> that the job of the host is to learn as much as you can about your guest’s <br>> positions and take the other side,” he said in a 2007 interview with Time <br>> magazine. “And to do that in a persistent and civil way. And that’s what I <br>> try to do every Sunday.” <br>> <br>> Cuomo, Russert’s onetime boss, wrote of Russert: “Most candidates are not <br>> eager to present themselves for Tim’s incisive scrutiny, which is fed by <br>> his prodigious study and preparation. But they have little choice: <br>> appearing on ‘Meet the Press’ is today as vital to a serious candidate as <br>> being properly registered to vote.” <br>> <br>> Russert wrote two books — “Big Russ and Me” in 2004 and “Wisdom of Our <br>> Fathers” in 2006 — both of which were New York Times best-sellers. <br>> <br>> Emmy for Reagan funeral coverage<br>> In 2005, Russert was awarded an Emmy for his role in the coverage of the <br>> funeral of President Ronald Reagan. His “Meet the Press” interviews with <br>> George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000 won the Radio and Television <br>> Correspondents’ highest honor, the Joan S. Barone Award, and the Annenberg <br>> Center’s Walter Cronkite Award. <br>> <br>> Russert’s March 2000 interview of Sen. John McCain shared the 2001 Edward <br>> R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television Journalism. He was <br>> also the recipient of the John Peter Zenger Award, the American Legion <br>> Journalism Award, the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award, the <br>> Congressional Medal of Honor Society Journalism Award, the Allen H. <br>> Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism, the David Brinkley Award for <br>> Excellence in Communication and the Catholic Academy for Communication’s <br>> Gabriel Award. He was a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. <br>> <br>> Russert was a trustee of the Freedom Forum’s Newseum and a member of the <br>> board of directors of the Greater Washington Boys and Girls Club, and <br>> America’s Promise — Alliance for Youth. <br>> <br>> In 1995, the National Father’s Day Committee named him “Father of the <br>> Year,” Parents magazine honored him as “Dream Dad” in 1998, and in 2001 <br>> the National Fatherhood Initiative also recognized him as Father of the <br>> Year. <br>> <br>> Irish America magazine named him one of the top 100 Irish Americans in the <br>> country, and he was selected as a Fellow of the Commission of European <br>> Communities. <br>> <br>> Survivors include Russert’s wife, Maureen Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair <br>> magazine, whom he met at the 1976 Democratic National Convention; and <br>> their son, Luke. <br>> <br>> -------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> >From NBC News:<br>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-aJ42yqFZs<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>> <br>> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college <br>> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br>> <br>> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)<br>> <br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br>> http://www.fsr.com/<br>> <br>> <br><br /><hr />Enjoy 5 GB of free, password-protected online storage. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_skydrive_062008' target='_new'>Get Windows Live SkyDrive.</a></body>
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