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Well, I'm hardly surprised if TV made a big issue of one of TV's greats dying. I'm sure if someone on the LoT died, it would be a big deal on this message board, no?
I didn't see any of the coverage, though I did watch the so-so tribute on Meet the Press this past Sunday.
scaeagles, I think the ESSENCE of Russert's success is that he refused to accept the bullsh!t answers and yet did not become a rabid attack dog. He had to balance the need to get the big-time pols on his show with not making his show a mouthpiece for their mouthcrap.
I think he balanced this tough act better than anyone I've ever seen, and I simply don't believe he's going to be well replaced on television's longest running show.
Don't feel it personally if you don't. But I do. For one, he was tragically young, which always gets to me (especially as I near the tragically young but increasingly common death age range) and he was someone who's talents I enjoyed on an almost weekly basis for decades. I didn't cry or anything, like he was someone I went to cemetery screenings with ... but I felt great sadness that the cemetery is the only place left to see him.
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