Google has denied it, but the Wall Street Journal hasn't retracted a reportedly documented story it ran Monday saying that Google has been chatting up cable and phone companies trying to get "a fast lane for its own content," a tactic that puts the lie to Google's publicly ostensible "network neutrality" position and threatens the whole balance of the Internet. Carriers are supposedly shy of cutting a deal because, as one cable company exec told the paper, "If we did this, Washington would be on fire." And it creates yet-another problem for the neutrality-espousing, already overwhelmed president-elect.