In this shorthand journalism, photojournalism is a labor intensive anachronism, even in a world more attuned to visual information. It's a crazy aberration that, as photojournalism gets better and the public is becoming more attuned to visual communication, photojournalism's prominence in the newsroom is diminishing. Staffers lose status jobs , freelancers are squeezed. There were only a few people on the Internet until it became visual. Now it's taking over the communication world, all because pictures and graphics were added.
Journalism is in a precarious time.
The public demands more sensation after more sensation. Well, the big secret is there is just not enough sensation to go around. They manufacture more. Speculation is a false attempt to bring order out of the chaos of the deluge of information. Ancient military organizations invented discipline.