Tim Russert is dead at 58.
Now obviously, I don't know the man, but the news of his death is very saddening to me. It is a reminder, which I didn't need, of the fragility of life and the instantaneous absence of a person that meant so many different things to so many different people. For me, Tim Russert was a reliable political junkie. I could always count on flipping MSNBC on and seeing Tim go overboard with the latest polls and statistics. Sure, he got caught up in some of the shenanigans of the press corps, but he always remained pretty level headed, a trait that isn't too common in the cable news business and a trait that made cable news watchable sometimes.
Here in Milwaukee, channel 46 will never be the same.
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