Posted on 06/09/2026 4:15:12 PM PDT by WXRGina
Yes, my flame-retardant suit is on, but this is an honest question. What has happened to the two right sidebars here that used to be very good sources for TRULY breaking news stories? I've seen FReepers try to post actual breaking stories there, and some moderator deletes them from the sidebar, until all there is over there on Breaking News is commie Sunday television talk show posts. What has happened? I know Jim is gone, but I also know that this site needs money support. Crushing the breaking news sidebars is not a good way to get support.
Please go back and re-read my original post and the later clarification in comment #10 for those who did not read and comprehend the original post.
Yeah the side bars don’t offer much anymore. I also notice that I can find a lot more conservative news from the conservative commentators on Rumble and Youtube than I can find here. Maybe it is just hard to find conservative printed news stories anymore. I have often wondered.
yes. it does seem stale lately.
Humblegunner in charge.
All alternative sources to MSN are considered “chat,” that may be part of the answer
Nobody uses them anymore.
Many legitimate breaking news stories get zotted.
Why bother?
“Our hands have been smacked too many times so we stopped sharing”
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Humblegunner Rules!!
Yes. Theres actually news down there. :-)
No compliants really. Grateful for what we have snd glad breaking news doesn’t report nuke detonations.
“Breaking News has become Milquetoast News.”
Yes, it’s now Broken News. A “Sunday Talk Show” thread is often the latest item for an entire week.
It’s like they won’t allow any news on breaking news. I honestly started going to x/twitter since FR lost it’s breaking news.
2 sequential threads posted shortly after this one, “Trump and Netanyahu at Odds” from AP is in news/ activism, It seems like chat to me.
“Save Act shows signs of lide” from Liberty Daily is deemed chat, seems like news/activism to me
Stockholm syndrome among moderators, so taumatized they’ve they’ve incorporated the establishment media as gold standard,alternative media as suspect. You can’t be breaking news if you can’t even be classed as news/ activism
I rarely find any of the posts on any of the side bars clickworthy.
It’s slowly dying but I’ll still support and read.
What do you mean? The primary people hosting those are as far from 'Commie' as you can get. They report on commies and sometimes quote them - something unavoidable if you're covering network television's overpaid propagandists.
Those Freepers do us all a service by watching all that crap and cutting to the core of it so we don't have to.
Bombshell, bombshell, bombshell. Yes, we see.
I had hoped Chris and John would make some sort of effort to bring Free Republic into the 21st Century after Jim died.
But if anything, they’ve made the place worse.
And that's fine, MTN, but those posts are not Breaking News stories.
They’re kinda like Foxsnoozalerts eh?
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