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...Russert, NBC News' Washington bureau chief and the tremendously influential host of Meet the Press, died suddenly Friday afternoon. He died at age 58 of an apparent heart attack; he died in Washington, D.C.; and he died - unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with him - at work...
...course, whether Russert died in the midst of an election year or not, the political and news worlds would have felt his loss. As host of Meet the Press, Russert established himself as the consummate Washington insider, but he drew much of his knowledge and authority from his roots outside the Beltway. He was born in 1950 in Buffalo, N.Y., and his Rust Belt, Catholic roots constantly and conspicuously informed his work. He wrote memorably about his Buffalo upbringing and his father's influence on him in his memoir Big Russ and Me. As one of his NBC colleagues, Lisa...
...Jesuits are inextricably linked to questioning, and so was Russert. Meet the Press was an institution long before he came to it in 1991, but he made it his own by becoming known for aggressively questioning his Washington guests. In his trademark prosecutorial style - he earned a law degree before going to work as a political aide for New York Senator Patrick Moynihan in the 1970s - he held his guests to account for inconsistent past statements and doggedly followed up on evasions...
...answers more than hearing them, picking up immediately and viscerally on the slightest off note. Russert earned plenty of detractors among those who felt that, on the one hand, he engaged in "gotcha" journalism, and on the other, he was too clubby with Washington insiders. But his Meet the Press was anything but toothless, and it became established as a required trial by fire for political leaders...
...mole they said appeared on the lower back of the man in the video which they said identified him as R. Kelly - evidence disputed by the defense.. One witness dismissed the mole as "video noise." And one juror said: "The mole played more of a role for the press. It never came up in deliberations." Jurors said they discounted testimony from several of the alleged victim's family members, who were among 14 witnesses who identified her as the female in the tape. But not all relatives identified her as such, even declining outright to do so. That certainly...