This opinion piece is good journalism mainly because it is one MSM source criticizing another source- all too rare still. Yglesias accurately identifies two of Russert's favorite interview tactics and shows how they are less about informing the audience than creating another news story. I believe Russert is overly respected, and unlike Chris Matthews- an easy NBC target- Russert doesn't get nearly as much criticism as he deserves. Both Russert and Matthews are key actors in the over-dramatization of TV news, like all TV news personalities, which is why citizens should not get their information from television, except perhaps CSpan and sometime PBS. And when it is useful to see motion pictures of spectacular events like Katrina, the WTC collapse, and the tsunami. That is the larger story that has not made it into the MSM. Maybe it will take the business media to report on an old business model that has failed.