From the very beginning of photography, people accepted it as reality. It's very odd. Print previously had been 95 percent type and an occasional cut. We're in that 'not immediately' period again now. But we don't even know what we're supposed to be accepting yet.
Online newspapers have yet to benefit fully from the many uses of informational graphics.
Meyers argues that being online offers tremendous capabilities for visual communication, but only if users possess the right equipment and connections. Stores overflow with high-speed Pentiums, Power Macs and 333.6 kbps modems. But even these are not fast enough to give traditional graphics their due. In addition, Meyers said, that the nature of the medium is the root of the problem. The adage about a picture being worth a thousand words remains true online.