Ardent defender of their words and content, the Associated Press is now taking their talk to the streets! Where are their photo editors are trolling for pictures of today's crash these days?

Flickr, but of course! The wonderful photo-sharing community is rife with hi-res pictures by professionals, iPhone amateurs, and people who just bought their first DSLR who can more or less take pictures just as well as the professionals because they own an expensive camera. Check out this offer, from one of their agents:

Do you have good plane crash porn? Hit the AP up! They want to buy it and you make you a stah. Meanwhile, we'll stick with Tumblr and Twitter pulls because they're free and we don't really have to wait for them and also, people just give them to us. To which I say : | indeed.

[Tip via Bucky @ Animal NY.]