Images From Phones Add To London Attacks Coverage

Once more the proliferation of camera-enabled handsets has made the average citizen a photo journalist, something that is especially important to news organizations when emergency services restrict access to sites.
“Independent Television (ITV) sent out a mobile phone text message request to hundreds of subscribers to its service seeking any video footage of the events, some of which wound up broadcast, but most of which was of too poor a quality or too graphic to be shown. “Two years ago, the only place you got home video from was air show disasters and weddings,” said Stuart Thomas, editor of ITV London News. “But now a large proportion of people in this country are carrying a camera with them all the time, which is just incredible.”
Picturephoning has also run a piece on this, including an iconic photograph from just after the blast…and flickr has several folders set up to cover the attacks.
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