Of network-news expense accounts that once seemed limitless.
Watch as Andy provokes laughs at President Obama, Governor Romney and cable news's expense.
The chief financial advantage of such arrangements, at least in theory, is that they enable media companies to cut costs by sharing news-gathering expenses while offering advertisers cross-media deals.
An internal memorandum from The A.P.'s Los Angeles bureau dictating coverage of the troubled pop star was published by several media blogs on Tuesday, prompting some punch lines at the news service's expense.
The S.E.C. contended that Schwab had allowed some customers to change mutual fund orders after the 4 p.m. stock-market close, a violation of securities rules, creating the risk that such customers could unfairly capitalize on late-breaking news at the expense of other investors; it did not find the existence of an actual scheme to exploit the system in that way.
This time Mr. Ferrero said yes. "With so much talk of a declining housing market in the news and the expense of keeping up an empty house," he said, "we thought it was better to act than to wait and see what happened with the economy.
Are they creating technical tools and strategies that actually enhance fake news at the expense of real news?
These are relatively small numbers, but these services do a good job of collecting neighborhood news without the expense of actually reporting it.
At the moment, editorial decisions are being made in favor of covering bad economic news at the expense of other important topics, concentrating media coverage obsessively on negative stories about the economy.
If Rose actually were to take over the program, it would certainly be evidence of CBS doubling down on its recent approach with the show, which has been to emphasize hard news at the expense of the softer items the other morning shows are known for.
While these new initiatives are good news, they come at the expense of the Fulbright Program in the form of a $30 million cut.
