When David Carr wrote recently in his Media Equation column that “there is a rational argument to be made that the part of the [newspaper] apparatus that has a working business model, declining or not, should receive the resources”, he was talking about the print side of newspapers.

Scott Karp, a former colleague at Atlantic Media who's now the brains AND brawn behind Publish2, is a fervent advocate of link journalism -- and in general, I agree with him.

The last few days, however, Scott has been pushing the idea that every news site should have a headline-aggregation ticker on its homepage. And I have to say, I'm skeptical.