Breaking: Tim Russert Is Dead At 58

Tim Russert died A few ours ago, he slumped to the floor in his office at NBC just a few others.

Early indications are that it may have been heart-related. However, Tim did not smoke, he had no genetic links to heart disease, so seemed low risk, with the exception of his weight, which colleagues say was not ALL THAT much over-weight. I would have called him way over-weight, but I have only seen him on TeeVee and they say the camera piles on the weight. It does not take much "overweight," when that overweightness is caused by frequent doses of poison, like junk/fast, for example, or very fatty foods at home, especially when combined with work addiction. Yes, I said "addiction."

I'm not saying anything about Tim that I would not say about a family member or a good friend who had died, a 58 year old man with few of the markers of someone who might have a heart condition; few read flags that anyone knows of at the moment. It happens that way. Junk food and intensity just can't dance together forever.

No one knows why cardiac arrest takes some out of here instantly and some survive because it is caught before it can kill. It kills because it is electrical, not fat in the arteries.

Nevertheless. no sense in watching much news this evening, because it is all about the news.

When a news anchor gets this much coverage, no matter how great he was or wasn't, it just goes to show how TeeVee news media has gone to the dogs, or the grave.

Tim Russert was, for the most part, and considering the state of the news media today, a great guy and a very successful Newsman.

Before, anyone from the left comes after us with pitchforks, I am talking about a man who became successful during soundbite news, not Walter Cronkite News news. I have seen him go after the Right, lately.

Let's face it, corporate newsmen don't seem seem to get anything until the blogosphere gets it.

It is extremely rare when the news reports anything of a political nature that surprises me. Mainly, that is because I have already read it or have been called about it.

Anyway, Good Journey, Mr Russert. You will be missed.

(update: They are saying, on CNN that he did die from a massive heart attack or a cardiac arrest.)



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