They would save more time by simply not coming here. They can save lots and lots of time by not reading anything. Additional knowledge takes time to read and then adds time to your decision making process. Too many choices. These people should just write out a schedule and keep to it perfectly. No distractions, no extras, no discovery. No need for people to read things to understand them. Simply let someone else read them for you and tell you what to think.

I think your criticism would carry more weight if this news site wasn't a firehose linkdump format.

  They serve to save people time.

Or to draw attention to a succinctly formulated essence of an article. They help me in focussing on the articles that may be of interest.