Just how irrelevant has the “legitimate media” made itself?

Oh sure, we still read the Times-Picayune’s Saints coverage. Hell it’s Saints coverage… in a manner of speaking. A few of us still actually blacken our fingers each morning to do so, while the rest of us opt to trudge through trying to figure out how to navigate the perpetually-retooling nola.com this week, where, in exchange for clean fingers and 50 cents saved, we gladly subject ourselves to intrusive ads, superfluous, stats-inflating clicks to “page 2″ and seemingly-random, always aesthetically-displeasing “styling.”

We do it because we’re hard core. You’d have to be, being that on any given morning you stand a 20% chance of unwittingly stumbling across a Peter Finney piece. (The white space is the best part! And Pete is kind enough to make the white space 80% of the article. Thanks, Pete!)

But when you think about it, would it make a damn bit of difference if the Times-Picayune just up and stopped covering the Saints completely? more…