Enough Russert-worship already!
June 17, 2008 - 9:07 pm
Finally, someone said it.
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oh thank God I thought I was the only one. I really, really, REALLY loved that guy. But what’s love got to do with it?
The best quote from the Slate article is this:
“They loved him. They admired him. He was their mentor. He raised the bar for all journalists. . . And so on.
Just because it’s true doesn’t make it news.”
I remember smiling when I read “Just because it’s true doesn’t make it news.” What a great punctuating line.
Same thought here…He seems like a lovely man, great dad, etc. but the news directors there really need to start grieving on their own over this.
“Just because it’s true doesn’t make it news.” — but if you’re one of the media fraternity, you’re more important than ordinary people like Presidents and Iraqi war dead.
This is such a tragedy.
Clearly, the wall-to-wall coverage of a reporter’s passing indicates that we should cancel the elections this year. This is more tragic than 9/11 or the Holocaust.
With such a tragedy, who can possibly care about the thousands in peril due to bad weather in the Midwest and South, and who can possibly focus on such minor issues like the hundreds that are killed on a weekly basis in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Please, MSNBC, just turn into the all Russert all the time network. Can we maybe get a one week retrospective on his passing, with monthly updates on how his cemetery plot grass changes in length with the seasons?
Ok, now it’s getting ridiculous.
Tonight they had a big shindig at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where all the same people who have been blubbering all week about Tim Russert got yet another chance to blubber formally at a memorial service. To be honest, it was a great memorial, culminating with Bruce Springsteen playing “Thunder Road” live from London via satellite which was nothing short of awesome.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTW0k7_dU-E)
When I was watching I thought, you know, it would’ve been totally appropriate to have this memorial if they hadn’t been blubbering all week long already.
What they should’ve done was report Russert’s death, touch on it a bit throughout the week (in a non-blubbering news reportage fashion) then have this memorial and blubber to their heart’s content.
But what made it so absurd was that, after the memorial show, MSNBC followed it immediately with analysis of the memorial, with more blubbering from everyone imaginable.
THEN they ran a repeat of the memorial, AND a repeat of the post-memorial analsysis blubberfest – it’s on right now! It’s nearly 11pm.
Wottup MSNBC??
There is nothing more boring to me at least than the media writing about the media, even when they are dead.