Susan Sontag Critique

In Susan Sontag’s essay On Photography she readily attacks the modern photographic institution with the claim that it is diluting the visual world. She believes that because photography has become so readily available and accessible to the masses that it is quickly losing its value as a visual medium. This saturation of visuals is causing us as humans to believe that we have some sort of entitlement to all images and visuals.
While I agree with Sontag on the point that photography is becoming more and more available to the masses, I do not necessarily agree that this is a bad thing.
In her essay she uses the example of the pyramids and how prior to photography, only people who have traveled to Egypt can truly appreciate what they look like. Though this may be the case, however, why should this privilege be so exclusive?
Sontag herself is an interesting character. Though she criticizes modern photography she hold a very close relationship with one of the worlds best photographers, Annie Leibovitz. Perhaps this relationship gives her a perspective on photography that actually photographers cannot understand. Sontag herself has never done anything notable in the field of photography and as such can (ironically) be compared the leaders of modern conflicts such as proposition 8. Though she has never personally experienced the institution, which she is criticizing, she criticizes all the same.
Though Sontag is right in saying the photographic medium is becoming extremely saturated. She is not right in saying this is a bad thing. A more visual and available the world is only a good thing. Letting people experience things, which they otherwise would not be able to only help develop a closer global community, which I would argue is without a doubt a good situation.