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TV Buzz Some media critics wonder if the mainstream news didn’t go a little too far with their coverage of Tim Russert’s passing. Everyone agrees that it’s a big loss, but as one blogger pointed out, “Tim Russert was a newsman. He was not the Pope.”
Politics Buzz The 58-year-old Meet The Press anchor (and author) died of a heart attack. Weirdly enough, the NBC personality - known for never abandoning his Buffalo-bred blue-collar roots - recently published his memoirs. Sadly, it now seems eerily timely.
TV Buzz Best Week Ever has the exclusive video, and claims it’s not edited in any way. Heh heh. Okay, I just enlisted my inner Beavis to produce this trend. Enjoy!
TV Buzz Scuttlebutt that Tim Russert has had Arianna Huffington blacklisted from NBC over comments about him in her new book. There are several passages in Right is Wrong about Russert, calling him (among other things) “one of the temple guards of conventional wisdom” and a “conventional wisdom zombie.” Huffington was reportedly un-booked from two NBC shows, but she’s talking everywhere else about the tome. We love a good media scandal. Also, we just wanted to use the word scuttlebutt.
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