For sale: online local news

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Murdochitis has struck in Scotland. “One of the UK’s biggest newspaper firms is to charge for access to online content from six of its titles,” says the BBC . “The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles, or direct them to buy the newspapers.” You’ll recall Ruposaur Murdochus Corporatus seeks to ‘monetise’ online content by making people pay for it.