There are a lot of things you can say about Tim Russert as anchor of Meet the Press, both good and bad. He was the consummate Washington insider, a conventional-wisdom sort, but he was never intentionally mean, never shouted, never descended into the kind of nonsense that we have become used to from O’Reilly, Hannity and their ilk.
Russert died today, a shock to everyone who follows politics.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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