Fox’s Bernard Goldberg, in commenting on the media’s coverage of the Tucson massacre, put it (as usual) very well: “In all my years as a working journalist I’ve never seen such shallow, thoughtless, agenda-driven drivel as I have in the past 36 hours — and it’s all masquerading as serious analysis and commentary.” He added, “This is as bad as anything they’ve ever done.”

As a wise friend wrote me yesterday: “I don’t think I have ever seen any episode in media that quite approaches this level of depravity.”

And Howard Kurtz put it this way: “This isn’t about a nearly year-old Sarah Palin map; it’s about a lone nut job who doesn’t value human life. It would be nice if we briefly put aside partisan differences and came together with sympathy and support for Gabby Giffords and the other victims, rather than opening rhetorical fire ourselves.”

I concur with all three, and I only wish there were more media voices like Messrs. Goldberg and Kurtz, putting this disgraceful moment it its proper context.