Hey look they're forming "alliances"

Because, if there's anything the New Orleans media landscape needs right now, it's another ready-made Survivor reference.

Update:  Coming soon, a "New Orleans Print Alliance" featuring the Baton Rouge Advocate.

Uppestdate: Meanwhile Leslie Jacobs' entry into this sweepstakes is barely even off the ground and already it's deployed the following compelling keywords in the word salad it composed for the benefit of investors.

A letter circulated around the New Orleans business community and to potential investors describes the proposed site as a "best-practice model of nonprofit digital journalism that will ensure robust reporting in areas vital to our community and, as an essential public good, provide an open source of quality information for multiple media outlets, community and civic organizations. Its mission will to be "to provide information and promote civic discourse on issues which impact the vibrancy and vitality of the Greater New Orleans region."