The problem with Google is that their news generation process don't distinguish between opinion and news. Invariably, you will see an editorial opinion as a headliner in their news section.
One I saw before the 2004 election was particularly twisted to the left. I sent them an email about it. They said, sorry, that's the way our algorithms work. They could easily change their "algorithms" to eliminate editorials from posted news, but, of course, they don't. That tells ya something about who runs the print media.
The press doesn't distinguish between news and editorial either. Most newspapers maintain two quasi-independent staffs, one to write the editorial page and another to echo those opinions in the remainder of the paper (okay, and a third to place advertisements throughout the paper and deal with subscriptions, salaries, and such).
I would suggest that Google add a "section" for overt editorials and perspectives; however, there's little difference between opinion and news anymore.
Oh, yeah. If you go to Democratic Underground's web page (do it!), you will note that they have some "news" content, unlike Free Republic, which is merely a discussion board. For example, they have "the top ten conservative idiots of the week" and various other features where you can "learn" that all Republicans are evil; that John F. Kerry will win the 2004 election (although it's already 2005 and he lost the "deeply controversial" contest by "stealing" millions of votes); that we'd all be "better" living in Zimbabwe; and that those "evil conservatives" control even The New York Times.
Granted, you would have to laugh at all of these ravings of "news" if they weren't so uniformly mean-spirited and if millions of Americans didn't actually believe them. Nevertheless, perhaps because of their outright insanity, the staff of Democratic Underground produced only 36 "news stories" in the past 31 days.
Here at Free Republic, we "outsource" our "news" operations to
http://www.townhall.com -- which Google News actually uses, and which produced 480 news items in the same period.