Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

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

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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 immedi