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Originally Posted by Chris T
The article had a postscript observing the role the public now plays in newsgathering, thanks to the wide availability of digital still and video cameras. One thing that occurred to me was that the more this is so, the more likely it is that hordes of people are going to go legging it towards the scene of a disaster like this, cameraphone in hand, thinking about flogging their pics to the Sun. And then, of course, it's only a matter of time before one of them gets killed. For example, if that fuel tank had gone up while they were stood in that field, they would most certainly have been killed, if not by being shredded by flying metal, then by the blast wave.
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A bit like that sketch from 'The Day Today' a few years ago. The members of the public were so concerned about getting their video camera to work and film the out of control helicopter that they'd totally forgotten to call the emergency services.
