The thing to do is ALWAYS email the journo responsible (most publications have a contact address) and patiently explain that PPLs are trained to do forced landings, which this was, and it was done as per the training.
All the time we allow this sort of "Daily Mail" stuff continue, it will continue.
The fact is that most people think that a plane will plummet the moment the engine fails. It's perfectly reasonable to think that, just as it's perfectly reasonable to buy a PC thinking that "internet" is something that should be inside it (I am not kidding). And local newspaper "journalists" are usually about as far from being the sharpest knives in the drawer as one can get, but they have the job of dressing up the irrelevant local-news dross they are given into something to fill the pages.