What Tony Snow Taught Me About Dealing With People In The Workplace..
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I genuinely enjoyed this article. The writer is quite correct in suggesting that Tony Snow won’t be as lauded as Tim Russert. Whether he should be given the same adulation of Russert is debatable. Russert was in a class all by himself.
But this is not to detract from Tony Snow. He was bright and often witty. He was educated and he was knowledgeable, able to see the bigger picture as well as the detail. And more than anything else, with Tony Snow you felt that he cared. He cared about his country, his subjects of discussion, and he cared whether he was reputable and accountable. You cannot ask for more than that.
I didn’t always agree with Tony Snow. Often I didn’t. But Tony Snow was the type of person who reminded us that we didn’t have to take everything so personally. His appearances on Bill Maher’s Show demonstrated how an intelligent being could disagree in a civil framework. He demonstrated on that show how a courageous being could back his own convictions even in the face of overwhelming disapproval for those convictions.
Guys like Tony Snow and Tim Russert don’t come along all that often. And they can leave us too early. It’s a pity that they passed on so young. With their passing and that of other luminaries who have given us the news over the decades, it can be argued that the newsroom in the after world is superior to the one we have on earth. We will miss him.
