I liked Tim because he kept it real on both sides of the fence.

If you were a liberal or a conservative, he would'nt just let you walk.

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No doubt about it!!! Keith Olbermann. The only guy I know of who O'liey is afraid of. In the 4 years I've been watching him I've yet to hear him even utter K.O.'s name.

PF Mods, if y'all get a chance, pls add/fix as suggested below:

BTW, is it possible to edit an existing entry? If so, what you think about editing these three items with KO and any other newsguy with votes already
Somebody else from the cable news networks (post it)
None of the above. My choice is (post it)
Stop asking me so many questions, I don't care.


I'd also like to see added Christiane Amanpour, Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Her editorializing, wrong or right, put female foreign war-correspondants on the map during the 90s.

Plus I have to give her props when she publicly challenged President Clinton in 1994 to take action in response to Serbian actions in Bosnia... that was kinda funny when Ms.Amanpour got snippy during a interview and the President put her in her place with "Young lady, do you realize who you are talking to?!"

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The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

The most respected by me is any one that reports the truth even if it is boring rather than reporting exciting lies.

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Ooh. I agree on Fareed Zakaria too (although I know him from Newsweek rather than TV), but I think of him as more of a pundit
If Tim Russert were still alive, he'd go on the list.
But, alas, Meet the Press will never be the same.

But all in all... newscaster wise in the boring ol' trustworthy anchorman kinda way... nobody tops Lehrer (I also like that since he's Bostonian or something he can't pronounce his own name right! It only has one syllable when he says it!)

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And I do not need to know.

Tim Russert will always be the best.

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Diane Sawyer: "Do you agree the situation in Afghanistan is precarious an urgent?"

John McCain: "Well, I think it's very serious."

Diane Sawyer: "Not precarious and urgent?"

John McCain: "Oh, I, I don't know what exactly, run through vocabulary, but it's a serious situation."

[8 seconds later]

John McCain: "... particular given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border."

and how do you make that determination of truthiness? i am sure there are some poor creatures, who watch faux news with the misguided notion that the truth is sometimes uttered on that station

do how do you divine which broadcasts are being honest?

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"I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right."

Frank Zappa

he was a hack
really
yep, he was a nice guy who came up the hard way and loved his family
but unless the dots were already connected for him he could not figure out the way things correlated
he was typically clueless and enjoyed being in that condition
that he is now dead does not change that reality

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"I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right."

Frank Zappa

not! Easy enough to see where Tim's talents were.. just watch the halfboiled MTP now. Russert did his homework very well, and was able to think on his feet quicky and able to follow on through with a pertinent question if the guest leaves an openning.

His talent will be sorely missed especially with this election just a few months away. His passing truly was a lose for the country.

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The only tangible difference between the likes of say Stephen Colbert or John Stewart, and say Bill O’Reilly is that Colbert/Stewart don’t claim to be “real” news, nor do they constantly display the banner of “fair and balanced”.
In other words, one side is purely for entertainment purposes and bills itself as such, while the other is purely for entertainment purposes but attempts to pass himself off as a real journalist, and oddly enough many people believe him.

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