A bit more free advice, if I may.
"Dirty Tricks" - not just going through the garbage. Management has access to a range of sweeteners - a few miles in your QF account, lifetime platinum FF, etc. (or, the other way round, being nasty to those who write unfavourable stuff; amazing what the odd bag going to Vladivostok can do... )so you've got to come up with some stuff which is better journalistically.
Steps back into the shadows...