The TV Zone

Yes, it was exactly one year Saturday since the death of Tim Russert, and below, is "MTP's" tribute from yesterday.

What have we learned over the year since Russert's tragic and untimely death?

1.) He was irreplaceable.

2.) Which may explain why David Gregory still feels like a placeholder as opposed to a successor.

3.) The Sunday landscape has been beset by a tremendous flattening effect in his absence, with both "This Week" and "Face the Nation" now equals with the once-impregnable "MTP" and perhaps, soon, the leaders.

4.) Bob Schieffer is now Sunday's de facto Go To Guy.

5.) George Stephanopoulos will probably be the top-rated Sunday Morning Guy on the fifth anniversary of his death.

6.) (Had Russert lived, he almost certainly would have NOT tweeted.)

7.) Had Russert lived, Prez Obama would have probably made his first major media stop at "MTP" as opposed to "Tonight."