Photographic Evidence

The ads suggest that the purpose of putting cameras in cellphones is to take photos and share them immediately by sending them over the airwaves to friends and relatives. But the real purpose is to sell minutes on your wireless service. Although no one really wants the return of the wall-tethered rotary-dial black Bell, there is something to be said for the days when a cellphone was just a cellphone. - New York Times

It’s obvious that the New York Times editorial board simply finds it easier to just buy into the hysteria about cameraphones rather than think critically about all this stuff. Whatever the attendant social problems of having cameras in cellphones might be, they are being blown way, way out of proportion. - Gizmodo

But camera phones will also have an important impact on journalism as witnesses everywhere will be able to document what happens in front of their eyes. These pictures will better record news. They will find their way into newspapers. They will improve and broaden the witness of news. That is good for journalism. Somebody go down the hall to the Times editorial board and turn over their calendar to 2003. - Jeff Jarvis

I spent most of the time taking pictures. heh, I really enjoyed playing the role of a journalist. Everyone was tugging at my sleeves asking me to take their photos mistaking me for a foreign reporter. Some people recognized a reporter from Al-Arabiyah station and they started taunting him. One old man shouted to him “For once, speak the truth.” - Zeyad

This week we turn most of THE SCRAPBOOK over to Zeyad, the 24-year-old Iraqi dentist and blogger who scooped the world media with his one-man reporting and photography on the big anti-terror, pro-democracy march in Baghdad on December 10. It was, as Zeyad accurately put it, “a great day for Iraq.” Unfortunately, unless you visited Zeyad’s website or one of the many blogs that linked to it, you probably never heard about the demonstrations. - Weekly Standard

Just a few years ago, this would have been a non-story in the United States. Now, it’s a huge embarrassment for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the other Big Media operations that were scooped by an Iraqi dentist with a $200 digital camera. And not just scooped — shown up for having what are, at best, rather skewed priorities in their reportage. - Glenn Reynolds

If you just read the New York Times and Washington Post you get blindsided by all this stuff. It’s the new age in which everybody is a publisher of a newspaper and they can circulate it to anyone who’s interested in reading it. And that period of freedom—that free exchange of ideas, unmediated by who has a station license or can afford paper and ink—really I think is just the essence of the Internet era. - Dick Morris

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