In the face of adversary, the people affected by Hurricane Katrina are holding on to their news.

Turning to it in times of need, the citizens of New Orleans and surrounding towns and cities are clinging to their papers like the good media consumers every newspaper loves.

So devoted to their print media, they are even reading their newspapers in coffee shops. On streets that have been clearly marked for other reading material purposes.

At CC's coffeehouse on Magazine Street one morning last week, there were so many people absorbed in that day's Times-Picayune that the scene looked like a commuter train.

Newspapers on Magazine Street? We applaud you, citizens of Louisiana, for being so loyal. Here in New York, people are only going to internet cafes and reading blogs. (We hear they're even doing it in Times Square.)

As Katrina Recedes, Newspapers Still Float [Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times]