"Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact"--that's the headline in the Financial Times. Drudge plays it big tonight, bigger than most other stories, proving, once again, that he knows exactly what he is doing. The story is that NWS is going to take itself out of Google, and go instead with MSFT's Bing, perhaps for a fee. Thus Google's near monopoly on search is potentially undone.
And that's why this corporate deal such a big deal. Because, frankly, the fate of the media business is a bigger story, even than health care. Why? Because if the Democrats wreck healthcare, those mistakes can be fixed. But we lose our free speech, then we won't have any way to mobilize public opinion to fix those mistakes.
