At least the Washington bureau can be construed as a legitimate news expense that leads to an actual product. When I got the ax from one of its papers last year, the company was still pressing forward with a multimillion-dollar "upgrade" to CCI NewsGate, an impossible-to-use computer system that purported to meld our print and online operations but only resulted in migraines and an untold loss of productivity. But I'm sure none of this will stop Gary Pruitt, the CEO, from giving himself another million-dollar bonus.