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because it feels uneven to people. any corporation would be stunned and take time to grieve a loss like they have just suffered -- but very few have a broadcast platform and do so in front of the world. When a loss like that occurs you want to tell the world to stop and notice and mourn -- but no one gets to do that and the fact that NBC had the means to share their mourning in that way feels "unfair" for lack of a better word.
But Russert had the stuff to be a new model for news -- he was not mean, he was as fair as i expect a reporter to be, he asked a question and allowed the guest to answer w/o jumping in before the verb, and he was not small or elitist. And he was candid about his biases instead of claiming he had none because he was a journalist. It is a real loss for the way news is done.
