Baked into the business

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"Serious reporting used to be baked into the business, but under pressure from the public markets or their private equity owners, newsrooms have been cutting foreign bureaus, Washington reporters and investigative capacity. Under this model, the newsroom is no longer the core purpose of media, it's just overhead." -- from David Carr's 12.10.07 "Media Equation" column in the N.Y. Times.