[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.

[PRePublic]

Thanks for your great reply, but so does lefty indymedia, If I am not mistaken.
Actually by in large, FR linking to other sources makes it more "busy" on main google as a whole, but never on news.google.com