Making an appeal for your cooperation

Greetings Administrative, Faculty and Staff.
I beseech on behalf of the DIGEST staff that you all work with us in producing a quality paper that is newsworthy, factual and unbias.
One of the major problems that we are having is cooperation. It is imperative that when a reporter calls or comes by your department and/or office for an interview that you all comply with his/her request for an interview. Reporters are calling and leaving messages to no avail. They are also doing impromptu visits to the necessary departments in order to schedule an appointment only to be denied an interview. If an interview is not overtly denied, the reporter is then put on hold or offered a later date that is not comparable to their time sensitive deadlines.
I profoundly understand that you, the administrative, faculty and staff, have your own list of duties and responsibilities to execute, but I entreat, please make time for us via interviews done in person, over the phone and via e-mail – whatever it takes due to time restraints.
We, the media, are forced to depend on you, Southern officials, to give us the details needed to factually compose a balanced story which is to present all sides without prejudice.
In addition to obtaining interviews, DIGEST photographers are also having difficulty securing photos. Photographers are not always readily available to accompany a reporter on an interview; therefore, a more often than none, a photographer will come independently of that reporter to take a head shot or some other type of shot that he/she feels will contribute to a story.
Please remember, at the end of the day, the reporters who are out soliciting information for stories and the photographers who are taking photos are Southern students. We are balancing both our class attendance/homework assignments and student media responsibilities. Please help us to be successful in our endeavor.
Thanks to all who are currently cooperating with the DIGEST staff and thanks to you who have heard my plea and are inclined to adhere to my humble request.
Thanks to being conscience of the fact that media is a fast paced business, and we would like the opportunity of being first to get the news out regarding our campus affairs.
Please let the error, if one is to be made, be on me, as editor in chief, and not on the administrative, faculty and staff for not bringing to fruition a student newspaper that we all can be proud of.
Thanks again, and as always, please keep the press releases and announcements coming so that we can work together to keep the Southern University’s student body informed.