Noting what you consider conservative news reporting.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537705/Man-wakes-mortuary-15-hours-pronounced-dead.html
And just how many of those articles were posted here on FR???
We could find stories like you put together in almost any newspaper nowadays. The DailyMail has a lot of good stories and often more detail and information than you can get from USA papers.
Considering that essentially the same story was reported in the Washington Post (links up-thread), if the WP article was posted rather than the DM article, would you have had the same reaction?
In other words, ALL the "mainstream" papers have articles like the list you posted. So is the objection to the DM in particular, or "trivial" news stories in general (non-specific to what news site they came from)? Because a quick google search on FR threads referencing DM shows that there are a LOT of Daily Mail articles posted on FR, beyond the list you cite, including lots of "hard" news stories about world events, plus black-on-white crime which gets unreported in US media.
In summary, if the AM comment on post #2 had been "Please reserve the "News/Current Events" topic for stories of actual importance to the conservative cause", then I think most people here would have shrugged, said OK, and that would have been the end of it, rather than the discussion you are now seeing.
Let me get this straight.
If a story is posted at AP, WP, NYT, LAT, CBS, NBC, ABC, or one of those rags, then it is a legitimate news story and if the same story is posted in the Daily Mail, then it is not considered a legitimate news story and must be relegated to the chat room?
If this is the Official Position of Free Republic, then this is stupid. The Daily Mail does not ignore all the Obama scandals and AFAIK, it is one of the only major newspapers on the planet that has dutifully reported on all the Obama scandals and is one of the few places on the planet where we can actually get some legitimate unbiased news reporting.
If I read you correctly, then the Washington Post and the New York Times are legitimate news sources and anyone that prints stories that are critical of Obama are tabloids.
Is this forum FREE REPUBLIC or Democrat Underground?