Tim Russert, one of the good guys
"Meet the Press" was already a stuffy, bow-tied institution in 1950 when Tim Russert was born in blue-collar Buffalo, N.Y., early in the era of flickering black-and-white pictures and rabbit-eared antennas. There was little fanfare four decades later when Russert, who had been schooled in politics as a sharp-elbowed aide to New York's two great political intellectuals, Pat Moynihan and Mario… » Full Story on Salon.com
