It did wonders for Matt Drudge’s sinister photo collage of Senator Clintons, so it was no surprise that the Warhol Art Maker could even provide some attractiveness to recently dead, visually undesirable, news deity Tim Russert. Click below for the gallery honoring the journalist with more color than even yesterday’s sky painted act of God.
AnimationMD Explodes Tim Russert’s Heart for Promo Video
In one of the more shameless uses of Tim Russert’s death to date, AnimationMD.com created this 3D animation detailing how the veteran news reporter’s heart attack “most likely occurred” as the “left anterior descending coronary artery” ruptured. Using preliminary autopsy reports, the medical animating company that promises to “create stunning imagery with cinematic effects that engages viewers,” posted the heart attack video to YouTube. Founder Dr. Edward Perper was even good enough to leave his email in the description box for anyone interested getting their own custom, life ending, ailment videos.
When cops die they get the bagpipes, for soldiers it’s the playing of Taps, but when it comes to media types like Tim Russert—who once got both Bush and Kerry to admit their secret society shadiness—it’s the whole gambit. Although the official wake isn’t till tomorrow, the Meet the Press host and venerated-like-Jesus media man has already received a hero’s tribute that included flags ordered to half mast in Buffalo, plans to rename strips of road after him, and marathon MSNBC coverage this past weekend, as well as numerous memorials across other networks. And then there was the newspapers. Hundreds of them ran Tim Russert tributes, but only a few dozen were honorable enough to place the news juggernaut on the cover, above the fold, or fused with the masthead altogether. ANIMAL assembled a collection of the best tree killers that paid tribute to what some decry as a staunch leftist in disguise.
58 year-old veteran reporter and longtime host of Meet the Press, Tim Russert, died on the job earlier today at NBC’s Washington bureau studios of a heart attack. Although the press held off making an official announcement to allow for NBC and affiliates to break the news first—it’s common media courtesy after all—the story is all over the wires now. But not before getting updated by Wikipedia first, even beating longtime MSNBC colleague Tom Brokaw to the on air punch. |MSNBC|
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