Maybe my point of view is being coloured by living in a culture where it is now considered "normal" to encounter a person on the street, who is badly injured, or in great distress, and to react by instantly reaching for your phone to start filming them....
Exactly the same happens in pinas,within days of the maguindanao massacre DVD's were on sale in Gensan showing the exhumation of victims and close-ups of the bodies,when I was in Davao last year a guy was shot on angliongto,sitting in his car hit in the face twice, people were filming on their cells and mailing footage to friends,a friend of mine years ago lived in Manila,he chanced upon a guy who had actually hung himself in a street,people were hurrying past on their way to work and avoiding the corpse,pinoy society is no different to anywhere else to be honest,good and bad in all.