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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 6/16/2008 2:08:45 PM
Title: "Butler, it's time to serve the shrimp"
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From FRANK WHALEN: Anybody catch this in David Broder's tribute to Tim Russert?: "But as soon as the camera lights went off at 10 a.m. on Sunday, he relaxed. Ali, the NBC butler, brought out the platters of shrimp and glasses of juice, and the reporters who had been on the roundtable (and sometimes the last interviewee) would join Tim and executive producer Betsy Fischer for a lengthy exchange of political gossip." So the broadcasting and journalism industries are handing out pink slips like cups of water at a marathon and NBC has "Ali the NBC butler" serving up platters of shrimp to senior MTPers and their guests? Really, really nice image. No offense to the late Mr. Russert. He was very, very good at his job. But the image Broder offers up sounds like something written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You would think Broder would be too embarrassed to mention such unrealities. [Permalink]

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