[II2II]

Then there is the value of the written word. While the grainy video may reveal more than the high resolution photograph, the written word may reveal more than a grainy (or high resolution) video. A diary is much better at exposing motivations, emotions, the perceived relevance of events. A newspaper article can articulate the events of a day much better than a film that captures a fragment of time in the framed image of space. It's not that written accounts are necessarily better on these accounts (one could, for example, have a video diary). It is simply that they turn out to be better than the often fragmentary accounts from higher fidelity sources.

(It is also worth noting that these higher fidelity sources are often left to decay or are intentionally destroyed due to the difficulty and expense of maintaining them.)

[nicbou]

I agree. My written travel journals are far more interesting than the pictures, because they show how I actually felt while I was there, with all the little stories that go with the trip.