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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.

Now, “One of the UK’s biggest newspaper firms is to charge for access to online content from six of its titles,” says the story, going on »»»

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.

Johnston is the first regional publisher in the UK to trial asking readers to pay for its online news.

Sites in the pilot scheme include the Worksop Guardian, the Ripley & Heanor News and the Whitby Gazette.

The Northumberland Gazette is also included in the trial. In Scotland, the Carrick Gazette and Southern Reporter are taking part.

But the lamescream news corpse is so, well, yesterday.

Information wants to be free. And it is. Online, anyway. And as long as people continue to inform each other, completely bypassing traditional ’sources, that’s the way it’ll stay.

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