Veteran newsman Tom Brokaw will moderate NBC’s Sunday morning newsmagazine Meet the Press through the November presidential election to fill the vacancy created by the death of former host Tim Russert. Tom begins next week.
Luke Russert, son of late NBC political expert Tim Russert, fondly remembered his dad on Today Monday. The Meet The Press host passed away on Friday after collapsing from a heart attack at the NBC News Bureau in Washington. He was fifty-eight.
“My dad would rather drink beer with my college friends than have a steak dinner. My friends loved him just as much as I did. Boy, did he love to eat at those tailgates.”
The New York Times is reporting that MSNBC political pundit and Meet The Press host Tim Russert died of a heart attack at the NBC News Bureau on Friday. He was fifty-eight. Read the rest of this entry »
Controversial television journalist Martin Bashir has a brain tumor. Read the rest of this entry »
Eighty-five year old television personality Ed McMahon is facing homelessness after falling $644,000 behind in payments on his $4.8 million Beverly Hills mansion, The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday. McMahon grew to fame in the 1970s as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on The Tonight Show. He went on to host Star Search in the 1980s and spent more than decade as the face of Publishers Clearing House Million Dollar Sweepstakes. Ed has been unable to work as the featured hypeman for various products since breaking his neck 18 months ago, says spokesman Howard Bragman. Read the rest of this entry »
OMG! Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. The seventy-six year old senator from Massachusetts, a Democratic icon, has been hospitalized since having a seizure Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »
Thomas Beatie broke his silence on being the World’s First Pregnant Man on Oprah on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain turned the tables on talk show host David Letterman Tuesday with a comic monologue in which the seventy-one year-old senator hit back for Letterman’s jokes about his age. Read the rest of this entry »
Americans displayed their discontent with seven years of war, failure, and recession with a piercing chant of boos as President Bush threw out the inaugural pitch at DC’s new Washington Nationals Park (Nationals vs. Braves) on Sunday.
Senator Barack Obama, fresh off the heels of a win in Mississippi, on The CBS Early Show.
