Or if you are adjacent to a high profile target, working in the same company as a high profile target, working at a company that is contracted to a high profile

Or if you are adjacent to a high profile target, working in the same company as a high profile target, working at a company that is contracted to a high profile target, friend of a friend of a high profile target.... And so on. Sure, the average person probably doesn't need this (although as another comment pointed out, HN isn't quite representative of the average)... But the net is a hell of a lot wider than just journalists.