A couple weeks ago, this freelance photographer I know was telling me about his trade - about the politics of news. He regularly shoots for major papers and news agencies and had just returned from Goma.

He told me about a plane crash in Cyangugu, Rwanda about a year ago. One of the news agencies - maybe Reuters - called him and asked him how long it would take him to get there. He told them that Cyangugu was 5 hours from his house in Kigali and it would be dark by the time he got there. He could have a shot for them tomorrow morning. They said they’d call him back.

2 hours later they called back: “Only 18 dead, so nevermind.”