It's tough to champion an underdog cause.
Most activists draw little attention to their impassioned fights.
Sometimes they get the feeling reporters and editors don't want to hear their points of view. But at least most newsrooms are subtle about their rejection. For about a year, KCCI has been on a kick to weed out extraneous faxes. The problem is we get all these junk faxes, and the local folks we want to hear from can't get through on the fax line.