Why oh why does this need to descend into a thread on journalists and who may or may not have reported the incident to them? Can we please stick to the facts of the incident instead of the same old arguments? We have a job to do, and so do they just accept it. Admittedly the do go over the top sometimes (not always) but that is the nature of the beast. Imagine the headline..... TWO AIRCRAFT COLLIDE A LOW SPEED, NO INJURIES AT ALL. Do you think people would be interested? We as aviation professionals and enthusiasts would be, but not your average Star or People reader. Their job to sell papers and that is how the go about doing that!
As for it being a crash, if you stick to the Oxford English Dictionary definition, it was a crash. Cars crash on the ground why can't aeroplanes?