The list of potential replacements for Tim Russert has some interesting choices -- Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, Gwen Ifill -- some bizarre ones -- Katie Couric?-- and some bad ones -- Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann and Keith Olbermann. Jonah Goldberg, however, thinks NBC should go back to the basics, when candidates on "Meet the Press" actually met the press, instead of one host:

All of that said, I think the show should return to a panel, at least for the time being. What's wrong with bringing three or four hard-hitting journalists to ask questions the way they used to? This is not only the best way to get a more diverse line of questioning (I would love to see Byron York or Steve Hayes on there asking questions no one else would ask), but it would help forestall some truly awful choices that seem to be in the hopper....

In a small way it would be a nice tribute to Russert to go back to the old panel format, demonstrating that his was a unique talent that justified breaking with the traditional approach.

An intriguing idea. But networks give so much weight to the personality of hosts these days these days that it seems unlikely NBC will go with a panel.