Not if you wanted your friend to keep listening. Be equally kind to journalists. A journalist friend who told me he gets a three foot stack of snail mail and over 150 emails a day shared this story with me the other day. There were about 8 more pages, but I didn't bother to read them. I just laughed, showed the letter around and threw it away.
Timing is incredibly important.
Let's say you're an ophthalmologist and the President is going to have eye surgery. You stand a good chance of getting a phone call for your opinion if your email just arrived while the reporter is thinking of whom to call. Your pitch only stands to become a story if it is likely to make a lot of people stop and read or listen. Describe her actual role. Someone almost always did it before, also, as well or as big.