This week an undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga. This is a truly spectacular rare event that happens to have been captured by many news organizations. If you haven’t seen any photos, here’s the warm-up:
And launch, as captured by the AP’s Lothar Slabon via the New Zealand Herald:
Lothar’s getting good mileage out of this event, because he sold the same photo – just uncropped and untouched – to the AFP and they posted it too:
I’m now starting to wonder about how much of my paper’s news is actually written by them versus just a slightly different version that they’ve licensed from the same source as their competitors. No wonder old media is dying…