Last month, after Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh was killed, De Telegraaf, a daily Amsterdam newspaper, published a picture taken with a mobile phone of van Gogh’s body moments after he was killed. “This picture was the story,” said De Telegraaf’s image editor, Peter Schoonen.
Imagine how commonplace this might become once the quality of mobile phone pictures goes up. LG is already planning a 6 or 7 megapixel phone!