Ryan Bridge: Filming seems to be the new word of mouth

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

Awful for the family to see – this is the people who were filming that tragic fatal accident on the southern motorway.

The news media will cover it, they will film it go out to a story. They will film if the bodies in the accident, they will film the accident aftermath, but they would not show it to the audience.

Here we have social media, everyone's got a camera, it's the new word of mouth. You film what you see, and you post it online. It's the Wild West.

The cops are upset with this.

"I thought that was disgusting. It really was. I mean, I saw some of the footage, it was filmed before emergency services arrived. There were close ups of people deceased in the van and injured lying on the road."

Yeah, close ups are people who are injured, lying on the road, not a nice thing to see or to experience.

But so long as you're not driving and filming, isn't it actually potentially useful evidence? Couldn't it help with an investigation if police are able to review some of this footage of a crash or the immediate aftermath of a crash?

Was that safety barrier strong enough?

By the way, how often does a truck's tire blow out? I mean, that sounds like a horrible thing to happen, and frightening, but it obviously happens, then what? You've got no control and it's all over.

Back to the filming. It is the new word of mouth; people don't just tell each other what happened anymore. They need to show me. I mean, this is just the way I think that society is going.

I'm not saying that I'm on board with it at all, but it's the way it's going, isn't it?

There's very little chance we will turn that ship around now and trying to do so may be a little futile.

In society we are increasingly desensitised to stuff and insensitive to the feelings of those around us.

That's just, that's just who we are now, isn't it?

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