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. Governments and the Industrial Revolution extended this formula. Early industrialists had to transform the individual discipline of farmers to the orderly process of manufacturing. That transformation was necessary with new industrial workers, but the information age demands a return to the individual discipline of agriculture, because the knowledge worker has the whole process within grasp. Changing approach will be easier for reporters than photojournalist.