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Ryan Bridge: Filming seems to be the new word of mouth · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: It's just gone twenty seven after five. News Talk said,
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  Speaker 1: be awful for the family to see. I know this
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  Speaker 1: is the people who were filming that tragic fatal accident
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  Speaker 1: on the Southern Motorway. The news media will cover it up,
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  Speaker 1: but you know they will film it, go out to
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  Speaker 1: a story. They will film the bodies in the accident.
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  Speaker 1: They would film the accident aftermath, but they would not
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  Speaker 1: show it to the audience. Here we have social media.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's got a camera. It's the new word of mouth.
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  Speaker 1: You film what you see and you post it online.
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  Speaker 1: It's the wild West, open slather. The cops are upset
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  Speaker 1: with this.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just say I thought that was disgusting? It
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  Speaker 2: really was. I mean I saw some of the footage.
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  Speaker 2: It was filmed before emergency services arrived. There were close
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  Speaker 2: ups of people to cease in the van, an injured
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  Speaker 2: line on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, close ups of people who are injured lying on
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  Speaker 1: the road. Not a nice thing to see or to experience.
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  Speaker 1: But so long as you're not driving and filming, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it actually potentially useful evidence? Couldn't it help with an investigation?
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  Speaker 1: If police are able to review some of this footage
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  Speaker 1: of a crash or the immediate aftermath of a crash.
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  Speaker 1: Was that safety barrier strong enough? By the way, how
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  Speaker 1: often does the truck's tire blowout? I mean that sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a horrible thing to happen and frightening, but it
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  Speaker 1: obviously happens, and then what You've got no control and
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  Speaker 1: it's all over over, way back to the filming. It
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  Speaker 1: is the new word of mouth. People don't just tell
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  Speaker 1: each other what happened anymore. They need to show me.
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  Speaker 1: Have you got the video? Have you got the video?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is just the way I think that
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  Speaker 1: society is going. I'm not saying that I on board
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  Speaker 1: with it at all, but it's the way it's going,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. And there's very little chance we will turn
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  Speaker 1: that ship around now, and trying to do so maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little futile society. We are increasingly desensitized to stuff
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  Speaker 1: and insensitive to the feelings of those around us. That's
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  Speaker 1: just that's just who we are now, isn't it. It
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  Speaker 1: has just gone twenty nine minutes after five. We're going
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