He outright rejected the very idea of an interview. I asked him this question, and he told me that, in the intervening period, he had done a little research. His press office had asked staff to scour Czech and European Websites for stories about their man, and, as a by-product of that research, over the course of a few weeks, they had come to appreciate which sites and sources were important and which were not, which sites had to be taken seriously and which could safely be ignored. It is said we live in an age of information overload. That's true enough but also very misleading.
Every era is an age of information overload.
Today's information glut is nothing new. The world will always have more detail, more facts and figures and more events than one mortal can take in. Who in this room can say they have even seen every printed newspaper in existence let alone read every one, every day. Because of their limited time, information consumers, like any consumers, are usually selective when shopping around. To make the best use of one's limited time, one has got to find names one can trust for the particular type of information one wants.