The Sound of Building Coffins

No matter what stratum of New Orleans society you inhabit, trashing the Times-Picayune seems to be a "done thing." I won't deny that our daily newspaper has pissed me off a time or two (or ten or twenty), but it is an essential part of my morning -- my coffee, my paper, my easing gingerly into the day -- and most of the time I think it does a pretty damn good job of bringing many diverse bits of our city to our attention each day. One of my favorite things about the T-P is that, as long as books