Documentary has learned to live with fiction, so it's possible that news photography can too. Of the defining factors of the digital revolution one above all the others will change the way we mark our journey on this planet. There will be new riches, no doubt, but they will be different because photographers and editors will store only the pictures they have used, daily wiping the memory of their cameras and their picture desks. No chance then of a future Clinton being caught leaning into the crowd to hug a future Lewinski. If words are the shrouds that we wrap breath in and images the shrouds of our imaginations, we can only hope that the pictures of the Twenty-first century, breathed into the fibre of the global highway by photographers yet unborn, will not fail us.
Hopes are high.