Thereare101excusesfornotwritingorcallingthemediawhenyouseeunfair，biasedorinaccuratenewscoverage："Idon'tknowenough"；"I'mtoobusy"；"Mycomputercrashed．"
（25）___（communicate）withjournalistsmakesadifference．Itdoesnothavetobeperfect；notallletterstojournalistsneedtobeforpublication．Even（26）___one-sentence，handwrittennotetoareporter（27）___behelpful．Ifyoutakethetimetotypeasubstantiveletter，sendcopiesofittotwoorthreeplaceswithinthemediaoutlet-perhapstothereporter，hisorhereditor，aswellastotheletters-to-the-editordepartment．
Ifmediaoutletsgetlettersfromadozenpeople（28）___（raise）thesameissue，theywillmostlikelypublishoneortwoofthem．Soevenifyourletter（29）___（notget）intoprint，itmayhelpanotheronewithasimilarpointofviewgetpublished．Surveysofnewspaperreadersshowthattheletterspageisamongthemostcloselyreadpartsofthepaper．It'salsothepagepolicy-makerslooktoasabarometerofpublicopinion．
（30）___youwritetojournalists，befactual，notrhetorical（带修辞色彩的）．Donotpersonallyattackthem；that'smorelikelytoconvincethemthatthey'reintheright．Addresstheminthelanguagethatmostjournalists（31）___（train）tounderstand．Callonthemtoberesponsible，professional，balancedandinclusiveofdiversesourcesandviewpoints．
Letters（32）___areintendedforpublicationshouldusuallybedraftedmorecarefully．