Sentence:  [S]ome of the characters we see among the blitzing media—a Houston TV reporter, an "Inside Edition" researcher and this film's producer and writer, James Manos Jr. and Jane Anderson—play themselves, each trying to <WSD>weasel out</WSD> the real inside story. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To obtain or extract, especially with effort and by cunning methods.