Tim Russert

by Katie Fretland Barack Obama has made the news more than John McCain lately with several big stories last week. The Project for Excellence in Journalism has an index of what makes the news each week of the campaign season.......

by John Crewdson The Swamp watches the Sunday talk shows, so you don't have to: The issues this first week of summer: Democratic unity (meaning can Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stand to be in the same room together? And......

A week or so ago, with McCain hyperventilating about Obama reversals on matters such as public financing of his campaign, we linked to a site that was tracking McCain's flip-flops. McCain is still hyperventilating. His current claim is that......

by John Crewdson The Swamp watches the Sunday talks, so you can clean out the basement and argue with your spouse over whether to finally throw away those '60s L.P.s. Tom Brokaw shows us that, even without the departed Tim......

Mark Whitaker, well-known member of the D.C. chattering class, longtime Newsweek editor and an NBC News exec last coupla years, was named NBC Washington bureau chief a little while ago. Significance thereof? Tim Russert, who died in June of......

Remember Luke Russert? Of course you do: He's the poised and articulate son of Tim Russert and the kid who spoke so movingly at his father's memorial service. He now has a job working for...guesses?....go ahead, take a while stab......

by Frank James The moderators for the three presidential debates and the one vice presidential debate have been named. They are, in short, the usual suspects. Moderating the presidential debates will be Jim Lehrer of Public Broadcasting's News Hour; Tom.....

by Katie Fretland House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she would be open to including expanded offshore oil drilling in an energy bill, if proponents of drilling in federal waters can prove it is a good alternative to solve......

by Paul West John McCain's fresh momentum is changing the contours of the presidential contest and making a close finish more likely than ever. With the race a virtual dead heat in national polling, the presidency could, once again, be......

by Frank James Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, told Congress today his belief of 40 years, that banks and other financial institutions would only act in their self interest and never do anything so aggressively stupid as......

Well, I have a million impressions from last night's coverage, and I guess I'll burden you with only couple thousand. Let's play the "who won" game. "Who won:" Not numbers, but the smartest coverage, or the coverage that seemed......

by Mark Silva It's official: Tom Brokaw's tenure as interim moderator of NBC News' Meet the Press is ending and the David Gregory era is beginning. Gregory, a tenacious questioner of presidents and more, will become moderator of the long-running......