Tim Russert (NBC) Dead At 58 Of Heart Attack

Russert, 58, was vacationing with his family in Italy, he returned last night. Collapsed while recording a track at bureau in DC.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Tim Russert, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and its Washington bureau chief collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58

Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the most widely watched program of its type in the nation. His signature trait there was an unrelenting style of questioning, sparing none of the politicians, business giants and even sports figures who appeared on his show.

Washingtonian magazine once dubbed Russert the best journalist in town, and described “Meet the Press” as “the most interesting and important hour on television.

He also wrote best-selling books, “Big Russ and Me,” in 2004, and “Wisdom of our Fathers,” in 2006.

This year, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Russert also was a senior vice president at NBC.

Here’s my only Tim Russert story, when I was interning at NBC4 in DC, he was leaving the building (sunglasses on) and I was entering, I held the door for him and he ain’t say shit (thanks) or anything back to me…. so I don’t want to go as far as calling someone who just dropped dead a DOUCHE but….don’t put it passed me. p.s.

By that criteria, Sonny Jurgensen would also be a douche, and well Michael Wilbon drives (this was in ‘04) a convertible SAAB which screams douche.

RIP.

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