Sitting in an Irish pub in Coronado, California a couple of weeks ago I witnessed an interesting event on the only television set that wasn’t tuned to sports of some description. The local news from San Diego’s CBS affiliate was about to begin on ‘my’ TV set and I was apparently the only one paying attention.

Nothing earth-shattering in the first package before the break — maybe seven minutes of content — but the sources for the three stories they ran I found fascinating. Each story was accompanied by either web video or security cam video. In fact, without the video there were no stories, as each ‘caught’ someone or something ‘in the act’ and therefore a story was created.

Think about it… no small mom-and-pop station buried in the airwaves of the network behemoths striving for attention, recognition and ratings, but the CBS station with lead stories created from grainy, jerky black and white video during the supper-hour news.

Journalism as we know it!

And with that, the eighth installment of Content: The Once and Future King.