Just announced on the soon-to-be-defunct Times-Standard Web site: A paywall. From now on, ordinary citizens will get only five free articles per month. People willing to drop $60 per year will continue to have full access, as will people in possession of rudimentary hacking skills.

For the Lost Coast Outpost and other organizations not a-feared of the Internetz, today’s MediaNews announcement is like manna from the heavens.