1.0 link 9921 <![CDATA[The Times Gives Tim Russert a Big, Wet Kiss]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-times-gives-tim-russe_b_9921.html After reading today's New York Times story on Tim Russert, I had to go back and check the byline to make sure that the piece had really been written by Todd Purdum and not the NBC publicity department.

Ostensibly a story about Russert's role in Plamegate, the piece is more hagiography than reportage. Purdum paints a number of different portraits of Russert. All of them glowing.

We get the High Priest of Journalism, who "now wields as much influence as any...

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