Earlier today News giant Tim Russert died.  Tim left a large journalistic legacy that will be hard to match.  I met Tim once years ago while waiting for a late night flight. We spoke at length while we waited to be irritated as the board went from from delayed to delayed some more, to canceled.  I was 19 and just starting to get politically active and we spoke about both the news, and a variety other subjects just to pass the time.  He didn’t speak down to me because of my age, but that might have had a lot to do with me being interesting and intelligent, but I would like to think it was because he was just a nice guy.  I can’t say that I know him, but I would like to think I knew him from the things he has had to say over the years.  The world will be a little smaller and little less informed without him.

From Wikipedia

Timothy John Russert, Jr. (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008)^[1] was an American journalist who hosted NBC’s Meet the Press. He was NBC News‘ Washington Bureau Chief and hosted a weekly interview program on MSNBC Tim Russert. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC’s The Today Show and Hardball. He co-hosted the network’s presidential Election Night coverage and presented the polling results of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the NBC Nightly News. Russert collapsed and died at his office in Washington on June 13, 2008.^[2]