"It's a white Mitsubishi Canter FH truck - 1995-96 model - a tarpaulin over the back to conceal the thousand kilograms of explosives that killed the Lebanese ex-prime minister Rafik Hariri and 20 others on 14 February." [Independent]

That's all you get (37 words) unless you pay the Independent £1 (around $2). The total length of the article is 338 words. Do people pay this? Robert Fisk may be good, but he's not worth £1/338 words. Not just for a news report.

Sometimes you can find the same reports published elsewhere, after a discreet interval. I make that 380 words for £nil (around $nil).

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