[TBP]

Google is a selctive, left-wign organization. It would probably not be open to FR or any other conservative sites.

[billybudd]

The problem is that FreeRepublic just links to articles from other media sources. There is *some* original content, but the site simply is not organized around it. It's organized as an aggregator. So, it's not fit for Google News.

FreeRepublic could set up a blog that aggregates original articles posted by FR members. That would make it feasible to cite FreeRepublic as a news source.

[RedRover]

This may be a sidebar to the main question but...

I signed up for Google News Alerts via e-mail under various keywords. Every so often I get Google e-mails alerting me to a Free Republic thread about the keyword. I've even gotten News Alerts to threads I posted.

So Google is "reading" us as news, at least in part.

[maquiladora]

As simple as this.

Recommend a news source

[SoFloFreeper]

Google News: All the news we think you ought to see.