Journalists use agents as sources, agents use journalists to send messages to drug lords, narcos use journalists to publish threats.
Other gangs have tried to use journalists to their advantage.
But the story, to use journalists' somewhat callous scale of values, was better than that.
Thousands of sociable people are gathered in the same place, many of them anxious to befriend and use journalists.
"The warrant system merely imposes a hurdle before government can use journalists' metadata to identify journalists' confidential sources," said Paul Murphy, chief executive of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
Once the Kremlin understood that it could use journalists as instruments of its will, and saw that journalists would go along, everything that happened in the Putin era was, sadly, quite logical".
Where its old submissions page made few references to journalism, it now uses "journalist" and forms of the word "news" about 20 times.
"This is the most extreme example of a recent pattern of using journalist visas in an attempt to censor and intimidate foreign correspondents in China," the group stated.
"This is the most extreme example of a recent pattern of using journalist visas in an attempt to censor and intimidate foreign correspondents in China," the FCCC said.
Israeli officials have said Hamas was using journalists and their operations as "human shields".
A master at articulating the resentments of ordinary Republicans, he used journalists like a director uses stuntmen.
