Final Exam

went to library, find, iris and other tutorials, Academic Search, brought me to Ebsco host, typed in title, first article, then find it, then clicked on link for deep

For open web, simply typed in title with Wall Street Journal in google which brought me to directly to the article on the Wall Street Journal website.
Authority:
Clay didn't appear to have any degrees to give him academic authority and did not cite anyone. It appeared to be a comment piece with a little well known info about the Gutenberg press thrown in with lots of personal opinions
Source:
while I was able to find it in ProQuest and it was in the Wall Street Journal, which are reputable, I didn't find anything else that would show me this was authoritative. I did a search on him as well and couldn't really find anything.

Purpose:
The purpose was to make the reader think about how information sharing is affecting society. His opinion seems to be maybe too many people thought it would be bad and likens it to when the press first came on the scene some people wrote things that were not edifying and leaned toward pornography

Evenness:
It was a comment that didn't really seem to lean to too many people thought it would be bad (the internet). Written in June 4, 2010

Coverage:
Since it was 1283 words, it didn't go terribly deep. Just an overview of his opinion.

Timeliness: The way it was written, it could have been written today or a couple of years ago. It is still relevant.

He gives an opinion that the past was not golden or the present as tawdry as the pessimist think. He feels the internet has actually restored us to reading and writing because we were just watching different strokes before. For myself, I find that untrue. I actually read more, but again, I feel what he had to say was an opinion with a little well known fact.
He also claims that people think every time we make any strides in new media it will make young people stupid. I guess it depends on if they were stupid before, so maybe what it really does is bring their stupidity to the forefront, or their intelligence, for the world to see. The question would be, what are they doing with it?
He says that we had erotic novels 100 years before scientific journals. I don't know what that was based on because there are no citings. Personally, I thought there were philosophers writing away on ideas that bordered on the scientific, but due to limited time, I can't research it.
Personally, he sounds like he thinks the majority of society thinks this internet thing is bad. I really don't understand where he gets that from. Being older, I know very few people that think that way, but maybe it depends on who you hang out with and what they do with it.