Charles Arthur: "I know that we keep hearing that "content is king". But … t it won’t be the content creators who’ll have the chokehold; it’ll be the controllers of the distribution channels. In other words, distribution, not content, is king."

Interesting roundup of the debate stirred up by Henry Blodge’s post "Why Newspapers Are Screwed".

Seamus McCauley yawns at Newer: "Vin Crosbie’s most recent manifesto… once more points out that the issue with online news is not at the presentation level but the content level. Lumping that content together in yet another new way".

Seamus McCauley reiterates that content creation is not the source of value in newspapers: "Think about it this way - if content creation the source of value why … are newspaper owners so rich and journalists not?"