Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik was a guest on Fox News' MediaBuzz on Sunday to discuss Martin Bashir's disgusting statement about Sarah Palin and MSNBC's and NBC News' lack of reaction to the scandal. Host Howard Kurtz, fellow guest Joe Concha of Mediaite, and Zurawik all agreed that Bashir's apology seemed sincere, but felt that he should have been punished nonetheless.

Zurawik followed with an impassioned attack on MSNBC and its culture of nastiness, along with the mainstream media for its hypocritical silence:

That's part of the larger problem here. That the mainstream media isn't more upset about this. You know, I’ve been complaining about the way our civic and political conversation on cable TV is debased. And MSNBC has led that drive in a calculated way. Because they have no journalistic function. They have no reportorial infrastructure anymore for business reasons. Once you go down the road they have gone down of nothing but hosts sitting in front of a camera doing opinions, you have to keep turning it up and turning it up and turning it up and be more and more extreme. This is what we got. And no one cares. That's what's outrageous. Whatever you care about, whatever you feel about Sarah Palin doesn't matter. In the conversation of democracy, you can't have this going on.

Later on he said:

The real question, where are people like Tom Brokaw and Chuck Todd who claim to speak for NBC News and the brand? Why haven't they called Bashir out and the lack of punishment for him?

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