Cut Down in the Line of (Broadcasting) Duty: Newstalk ZB's Nighttime Host Bruce Russell, A Man Out of Touch with the Zeitgeist, But Wholly Au Fait with Reality, A True Conservative with a Heart of Gold...

 As (American/Canadian) talkback caller 'Margaret' put it last night (in a day/night of tributes to Russell), a real compassionate conservative...

...one whose nightly 'ministrations' ever brought comfort, encouragement and succour to the marginalized 'silent majority'...

Never afraid to call a liar a liar or a dissembler a dissembler, Bruce wasn't one to suffer fools gladly...

You'll be - sorely - missed, Bruce, which is a heckuva lot more than one will ever be able to say about the vast number of your media contemporaries here, there and everywhere...