Holy shit. Life imitates art.
If you've seen that movie, you'll know Pedo Dan plays Lane's (Cusak's) neighbor whose mother hosts a French exchange student so he can get laid.
She's super creeped out and does shit like fix Lane's car because she wants to get away from Pedo Dan's character.
There were and are dozens of JournoLists out there. Media people often chat amongst themselves (probably because no one else wants to talk to them).
You can get a lot of useful intelligence by being a 'journalist' and fooling them into letting you in their sekrit club. (Not like I'd know anything about that…hehe)