Tim Russert and that white board
June 14th, 2008 at 06:30pm Anna Derocher
I tried to find a video yesterday when news of Tim Russert’s death broke. It’s the one of Election Night 2000 when he as on air with Tom Brokaw and whips out that white board on which he eventually wrote three words: “Florida, Florida, Florida.” I couldn’t find any clips of that moment, but I did find this Today Show interview with Matt Lauer. Scroll the bar over to the 4-minute mark.
Russert will be missed.
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1. Linda Grist Cunningham | June 14th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Russert showed journalists that understanding your subject matter, doing your homework and then asking broad, smart questions was the single best way to make sure Americans understood what their elected officials were thinking and doing. He asked extremely tough questions, not all of them “nice,” but that meant we learned. Russert defines what watchdog means.
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