Last week on The Daily Show, "senior legal analyst" Rob Corddry predicted "grave consequences" for the media organizations who shamelessly speculated about the JonBenet Ramsey case.

"Notably, noted ombudsman Howard Kurtz will join two print journalists, an NPR guy, and a well-known blogger for a half-hour of public pseudo self-flaggelation. Dozens of insomniacs will see it, Jon," he said.

Kurtz aired Corddry's remarks at the end of Reliable Sources. His prediction, by the way, wasn't very far off the mark. The first segment of Reliable Sources featured Denver Post TV critic Joanne Ostrow "former reporter for Court TV, CNBC and MSNBC" Diane Dimond, and Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, who hosts a weekly segment on a Baltimore affiliate of NPR. (The blogger didn't come on until the second-half hour, during a political segment.)

The self-flaggelation was pretty intense. Zurawik said the media is moving away from "the old journalism of verified information." Ostrow said the former divisions between tabloids and network newscasts are falling away "because everyone's chasing the same speculative stuff." And Dimond said the low public opinion of journalists was caused, to some degree, "by over-shouting ourselves on stories like this. It's one thing to report them, but it's another thing to just completely saturate the public with them." Here's the transcript...