Uh-oh. Look out. Somebody is going to keep a close eye on NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, who appears to be a gorilla to some. Is he King Kong? MIghty Joe Young? The designated "Tarzan" here is Todd Gitlin, a journalism and sociology professor at Columbia who will trail after Mr. Kong, I mean, Mr. Russert, on behalf of the Columbia Journalism Review.

"Among Washington media, Tim Russert is an 800-pound gorilla, often setting the press-politics tone for the week on his venerable 'Meet the Press' program. In our eyes, he exemplifies much is right and wrong with the insider D.C. political press," say the editors of the magazine.

The new feature — appearing each Monday at www.cjr.org — is called Russert Watch, and it can be found here:

http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/russert_watch_sunday_42008.php?page=all

Jennifer Harper, National Reporter, The Washington Times