Does Documenting an Event Still Need Photography?

A phone video shows more of an event than any photograph. But a photograph is what stays with us, and that says something about what photography has always been for. Documenting reality today increasingly happens without photographs: video has become a more suitable medium for showing what is happening. The question is not new, but it is worth asking again now, when there is too much of everything to look at and a growing share of it was generated rather than recorded. Shouldn't the docume