Washington Post Robert Novak and
Tim Russert chatted on the phone two or three times a month. "Tim and I disagreed on tax policy and other issues, but we never debated over the phone," writes Novak. "Instead, we exchanged political information, and I usually was the recipient. He supplied for use in my column news tidbits he could not use. During my half-century of journalism, he was the only colleague who was a source."
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The service: Russert's extended family bid farewell Wednesday to "an unmade bed of a man, with an armful of newspapers and a cellphone to his ear." || More from the
Buffalo News,
New York Times, and
Baltimore Sun. ||
James Wolcott: Leave it to
Bernard Goldberg to take the occasion of Russert's death as an opportunity to talk about himself.
