I realized that I couldn't restrict my search for evidence to the familiar authoritative sources without ignoring a near-infinite number of new sources...I was left in a state of uncertainty - a permanent condition for analysis under the new dispensation.
The Internet created the sense that there was always more to know-and this was 'an acid, corrosive to authority.' ...Every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect.
Every expert is surrounded... by an army of amateur explicators offering opposing views. ...The world of elite opinion has gradually lost its capacity to draw boundary lines around investigative truth-telling.
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