They need me to point them in the direction of a good story,succinctly give them the facts as I see them, the sources I know andthen get out of the way so they can write their own stories. I dothose things by writing pitch letters, damn good ones. Light years aheadof the competition. Submits to the top search engines, FFA and awardsites. Too manytimes, the reason for the letter is hidden several paragraphs intothe letter.
Editors are busy.
Not if you wanted your friend tokeep listening. Be equally kind to journalists. A journalist friend who told me he gets a three foot stack of snailmail and over 150 emails a day shared this story with me the otherday. There were about8 more pages, but I didn't bother to read them. I just laughed, showedthe letter around and threw it away.