I grok a different subtext: It's a journalist's job to know where the skeletons are buried, and where the escorts keep their address books. Journalists also h

I grok a different subtext: It's a journalist's job to know where the skeletons are buried, and where the escorts keep their address books. Journalists also have ready access to dictionaries, with which to clarify the meanings of words. Such words include "mutually", "assured" and "destruction".