You are right about the media releases however you need not wait for the people at the top to catch up.
If you keep a weekly or daily tab on the following websites you can then issue press realises to your local paper as UKIP Welwyn. They have some good quotes as well.
www.ukip.org www.democracy-movement.org.uk www.cibhq.co.uk www.news.bbc.co.uk and if you are so inclined as we are in Shetland
www.christian.org.uk