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In Russert's Life, Lessons for All

Posted Jun 20, 08 8:07 CDT in US,  Opinion 

(Newser) – Media coverage of Tim Russert's death was unprecedented in scope—and worth every second, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Russert lived a life worth emulating with his emphasis on family, intregrity, faith, self-discipline, and guts. As for the journalists talking about his open-mindedness and serious approach to the field, she says, “Emulation would be good there, too.”

"The beautiful thing about the coverage was that it offered extremely important information to those age 15 or 25 or 30 who may not have been told how to operate in the world beyond "Go succeed." I'm not sure we tell the young as much as we ought, as clearly as we ought, what it is the world admires, and what it is they want to emulate."

Source Wall Street Journal

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Friends, colleagues, and political luminaries arrive at Holy Trinity Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington on Wednesday for the funeral mass of Russert, who died of a heart attack at age...   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A Kentucky resident looks at a makeshift memorial at Tim Russert Park in West Seneca, N.Y., last week.   (AP Photo/David Duprey)
In this file photo, NBC News' Senior Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert delivers an address at Harvard University.   (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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