This creation of credibility within her article is central to her argument as it demonstrates that she is not simply expressing a personal opinion based on abandoned self-denial of the encroaching kingdom of digital media, but rather an opinion expressed by facts influenced greatly by his profession and by the data that Quindlen includes in his article. Without this data at this point in the article there would have been little more than speculation and would have caused the minds of the public to create a sense of insecurity as they read the article and saw the information given to them as the ravings of a fanatic rather than someone with a logical point of view and a clearly accredited vision on the topic and on the main ideas that are expressed through his