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Sunday mornings will never be the same

For as long as I can remember, if it was Sunday it was Meet the Press.  It is the oldest, and most profitable, show on television.  Its host, Tim Russert, died yesterday after collapsing on the set.  When I read that I assumed I read it wrong and it still seems completely impossible.  I met him once and kind of pissed him off.  I attended a party for the show and when I got there he was talking to fans and colleagues on a receiving line.  Well, I don't wait in line to meet anyone and waited until that was over to introduce myself.  He was done talking to people he didn't know and let me know it.  I told him that my mother and watched the show each week and it was our 'family time.'  He liked that and warmed up to me.  His roots were legendary and as Andrea Mitchell said, "we all know more about Buffalo than we ever thought we would know.'  Additionally, he loved sports and was on the board for baseball's Hall of Fame.  One MTP producer recommended I talk to him about baseball in the green room.

 

As a number of networks go into their second day of "Remembering Tim Russert" it might be easy to be bored of him and his life.  That is unfortunate because his contribution to the American experience will not be easy to exceed.  He asked politicians tough, but fair, questions.  A lot of people may have dismissed his style of 'gotcha interviewing' — and lest you think you will get away with saying something on camera, if he asked you about it, he also had footage.  It forced people to confront their own statements.  Dick Cheney got pretty good at denying things he had said and done.  He was able to keep his show fresh and relevant when other shows could not.  I watched it because I learned something new every week.

 

So tomorrow morning will suck.

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