{"id":1840,"date":"2008-06-13T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2008-06-13T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T20:01:00","slug":"nbc%e2%80%99s-tim-russert-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"NBC\u2019s Tim Russert: RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SFLSMh5DobI\/AAAAAAAABRM\/CF-fv4OQ9T0\/s1600-h\/z061308tim_russert.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SFLSMh5DobI\/AAAAAAAABRM\/CF-fv4OQ9T0\/s400\/z061308tim_russert.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211458831519031730\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tim Russert<\/span>, host of<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; <\/span>and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NBC News\u2019 Washington bureau chief<\/span> <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25145431\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">died today<\/span><\/a> after suffering a sudden heart attack while prepping for Sunday&#8217;s show.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mr. Russert<\/span> was just <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">58<\/span>.  He leaves behind his wife and son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I&#8217;m going to miss <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tim Russert.<\/span>  He was a newscaster that I truly enjoyed watching.  His love of the political process was evident in each broadcast.   Although he covered the world of politics, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tim Russert<\/span> never let his own take center stage.  He believed that his job as moderator of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Meet the Press&#8221;<\/span> was to &#8220;learn as much as you can about your guest\u2019s positions and take the other side, and to do that in a persistent and civil way.&#8221;  And that&#8217;s exactly what he did, often with a smile, and never with the feeling that it was personal.  He didn&#8217;t yell or belittle those he interviewed.  He allowed them to respond and gave thought to their answers.  He showed respect to members of all parties.  It&#8217;s too bad that more newscasters [let alone <\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">politicians<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">] can&#8217;t adopt that same outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers will be with Mr. Russert&#8217;s family, friends and fans.  May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Russert, host of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and NBC News\u2019 Washington bureau chief died today after suffering a sudden heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}