MSN.com is a news aggregator.
MSN.com paid Discover for the right to publish the article.
MSN.com curates the best and most interesting articles every day so you and I do not have read 50 different news sources trying to find them ourselves.
MSN.com also buys and publishes dozens of articles that are locked behind pay walls, articles that would be inaccessible unless we individually subscribe to that particular website.
Just my opinion - people who despise MSN.com, which is the third most visited English language news site in the world, have a very peculiar mania.
Why not send us directly to the source article when you want to post an article at freerepublic instead of having us support MSN and end up having to go to the source anyway if we want the complete article with photos and related articles the source has done?