From Peter Jennings’s interview on Booknotes in 1998:

“I don't think we know what the impact of the Internet is. I think we've come to the end of the century generally nervous — some of us generally nervous about the impact of technology, generally wondering where it will lead us in the next century. And I keep running into intellectuals who are afraid that what the Internet does is it puts so much information out into the society without any particular value on it. And so you never quite know what you're reading and you never know what source you're using.“

A newsreader at one of the broadcast oligopolies had reason to be nervous….