..and you wonder why people are reacting to you the way they are. Many of us have been nice and tried to explain to you the best we saw it, a different perspective, even citing evidence as I have that posts do drop off, even in breaking news, and that news and bloggers are both a mix of sources from MSM and alternative media, not just relegating alternative media to bloggers and liberal media to news, but instead, you continue to insult the FReeper community and the people who work for the site. I recommend you have a drink, sleep on it, and come back to this thread and read it as though you didn't post it... look at it from the perspective of those who responded to you. Comparing FR to DU, insulting FReepers, calling to 'dump' the site, the response people give you is expected.
I work with a lot of Web 2.0 and 3.0 education sites and I can tell you, how these sites work largely depend on the community demand. Based on the fact that 99% of the responses here are disagreeing with you and all agree that these editorials you used as an example are not news, you may be better to (as another poster put it) sell the author as an authority that people respect and want to see as news instead of griping that no one sees it your way.
There is an old adage in writing, if your point doesn't come across the way you wanted it, don't blame the reader, look to yourself.
Come on... You and a couple others have been very kind and helpful. But most have played tough guy behind the keyboard and lashed out in blind rage without ever even considering the possibility that there might be a real point to all of this...
You want to pin their behavior on me now, just because I won’t tolerate such crap?
Please... I had a much higher opinion of Freeper’s before today. I guess it took this discussion to meet the real Freeper...