It can only be said if there's money to be made
Fox News host Howard Kurtz bends knee  

Alternative opining about news makers and events is often irreverent by nature. Its represents defiance of status quo mores and parameters.

And it seldom enjoys the lacy liking of establishment media discourse arbiters and corporate welfare absolutists.

Howard Kurtz, the host of Fox's Sunday Mediabuzz show, sympathized with the elitist idea that outsider media voices challenging orthodoxy be shut down, and that 'tech giants' profit concerns should determine citizens' online speech accessibility.

During an interview with "tech analyst" Shana Glenzer, he attacked Gateway Pundit and its owner, Jim Hoft, for daring to question the official narrative that sprang into establishment-accepted being following the horrific Stoneman Douglas school shooting. 

Commentary in Gateway Pundit, and other alternative political media like Breitbart and Infowars, had speculated that some student speakers suddenly ubiquitous in fawning mainstream press venues might not be wholly credible, or without political or hoped-for professional motivation.

For Fox figure Kurtz, skepticism, orthodoxy challenging, and upstart outlet independence from the political-corporate news media complex are not healthy traits to be saluted, but distasteful ones deserving to be crushed beneath pricey shoe heel.

He effectively endorsed the concept of big money determining citizen speech facility. 

Kurtz: "Why can't these tech giants, these giant companies, stop the bullying, stop the lies, stop the harrassment, and the fraudulent videos? What would it take?"

Glenzer: "I think the first thing it would take is a lot of money. I'm not sure that they're willing to spend it. But, even then, there's always people that are worried about stomping on 'free speech.' And these tech giants, they don't want people fleeing their network because they're policing content. But, I do feel that there will be a tipping point coming up, where people will stop coming to sites because they're disgusted by content." 

"Right," Kurtz agreed.

"That will incite more change, more quickly," Glenzer ended.

"And ultimately hurt their business," Kurtz noted -- as if that were really the important consideration at hand.

He did not acknowledge Prager University's pending lawsuit against Youtube for removing videos out of viewpoint discrimination, or the many conservatives, like Milo Yiannopoulos, Mike Cernovich, Project Veritas' James O'Keefe, and conservative blogger John Hawkins, who've alleged they were banned for ideological reasons by Youtube, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

Kurtz did not remark on the fundraising and professional services ties tech titans like Jeff Zuckerberg of Facebook and Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, have to the Democrat party. He made no mention of increasing calls from the Washington Times and others for Department of Justice anti-trust investigations and related litigation. 

He did not even note alarms against Silicon Valley's formidable influence -- one that impacts speech, elections, trade, immigration, and ideological diversity -- regularly sounded by his own Fox News colleague, Tucker Carlson.

Kurtz may in the past have criticized those, And if he did, he deserves acknowledgement. But he did not take the opportunity to do so, this time -- and it was an appropriate moment. Instead, he championed mainstream media narrative exclusivity, and the mouth-gagging nature of corporate sensibilities.