AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta One of the great jokes of our current political moment is that one side of the political aisle continues to insist that legacy media outlets are vital to our republic. With all the self-awareness of a one-day old sloth, the left constantly laud the necessity of outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post, treating them as some kind of sacrosanct, fourth branch of government. In reality, these rags are worthless. To the extent that they do any real reporting these days, it’s all things that could have been done, or in some cases were already done, by others. Take the Times’ recent reporting on Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home scandal. That was treated as a big piece of “breaking news” last month. In reality, The Daily Caller had reported on the seminal facts of the case nearly a year earlier. Only when it became politically expedient did the Times “break” the story and attempt to take credit for it.