NOLA: Symbolic of the Future?

The storm that ravaged the Gulf Region proved to be both a momentous and historic event--as well as a learning experience.
The Times-Picayune, New Orlean's daily city paper, has managed to continue dispersing the news, even without the amenties of a traditional newsroom. No, you can't get the paper in hard copy format. But you can read the website: http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#078036
This website, updated very frequently each day, contains honest, hard hitting news stories from a town that has ceased to exist in any normal way. The journalists telling the story write from the heart because after all, this is their city and their coverage area.
However, what is interesting to observe from this situation is that despite the lack of paper pages, the newspaper is still distributing its information, its news stories. Many people across the country have been able to read the paper and have taken notice that despite the odds, the paper must come out.
Just because they can't print a page doesn't mean they can't inform the public.
What mainstream newspapers fail to understand is that their audiences are going that route. It IS possible to read the news in its entirety online. This should be encouraged. Newspapers should shift the focus from its tangible pages to the virtual pages of the online world.
It's almost impossible not to these days.
Newspapers across the country: Take note.
NOLA is accomplishing great things.