Luke Russert Profile…
The Buffalo News’ Jerry Zremsky profiles Luke Russert…
To hear Luke Russert’s friends and colleagues tell it, that watershed Weiner interview was public proof of something they had watched happen over the course of nearly three years.
At 26, Russert, the son of legendary NBC newsman and Buffalo native Tim Russert, has become a fine reporter in his own right.
It wasn’t quick, and it wasn’t easy.
Hired by NBC in 2008, only months after his college graduation and not long after his father collapsed and died of a heart attack, Russert endured a scathing Internet hazing.
But in the wake of his father’s death, and through the public flogging and an off-air apprenticeship, Russert did something totally unlike his dad:
He stayed calm.
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October 31, 2011 at 6:39 am
I’ve noticed Russert getting a lot better at his craft over the last couple of years. He’s one of a handful of respectable people at that network. FNC should steal him away.
October 31, 2011 at 7:01 am
Agree. Maybe it was the bad haircut he started with? But Russert kept his nose to the grindstone and got better and better. The impressive thing was that he avoided leaning left as a shortcut to success on MSNBC. He went after Charley Rangle and Anthony Weiner tooth and nail. His dad was liberal, but still even handed in his craft. He would be proud of his son.
October 31, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Luke may be better now, but he’s been good from his first day.
October 31, 2011 at 4:08 pm
At first people dismissed him as a correspondent because of his name. But after seeing his reporting one can only conclude that he’s a top-notch reporter.
October 31, 2011 at 4:42 pm
MSNBC handled his introduction very well. He started as kind of a “from the young people’s POV” reporter, then gradually morphed into a regular correspondent. I’d love too see him host Meet The Press someday. He’d be better than David Gregory now.
October 31, 2011 at 5:04 pm
I have to agree with all above. As the article says ‘he’s a natural’.
If there is one criticism I have it’s with that hokey sign off line: “Be Well”
Too cute by half.
October 31, 2011 at 6:10 pm
“Be well” is something his dad used to say. It may be a colloquial term.
October 31, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Thanks joe. I don’t remember hearing Tim Russert ever use that expression but it probably explains why he uses it. I still think it’s too cute but at least there’s a personal reason for using it.
October 31, 2011 at 7:15 pm
I wondered if I thought he was good only because I was rooting for him to succeed. Happy to read most see him the same way, and I agree that he was good right from the start.
-FNC should steal him away-
I hope not. He’ll do well wherever he goes but NBC is where he belongs if at all possible.