Is Today's Internet Killing Our Culture?

Are Wikipedia, Google and an infinite number of web blogs, liberating our culture or killing it by abolishing traditional standards and blurring the difference between what's true and what's false. Also, the Bush Administration's domestic surveillance program scores a major legal victory and, on Reporter's Notebook, Grey whales are a triumph of worldwide conservation, but lately, their numbers are down, and they're skinny. Are they headed for extinction once again?