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Article from: The Washington Post
Article date: April 11, 1989
Author: Lloyd Grove
Tim Russert grows thoughtful as he considers a pressing problem
of contemporary journalism-namely, a profile of himself.
"It's a hard piece," he says in a commiserative tone. "I don't
know how to make it interesting."
But that, he is reassured, is not his worry.
"I know, but I think about it," says the new Washington bureau
chief of NBC News, who arrived 2 1/2 months ago determined to make a
splash. "If you step back in the abstract," he muses, and then
proposes a plot line. It's a story, he suggests with a clinical air,
about "this guy ...
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