I guess that anybody with an audience can raise safety concerns based on rumor, so called insider information or tidbits to attract readership.
A true safety professional would recognize the difference between malfunctions and imperfections and a measuarble degradation in safety.
So unless you are willing and able to put forth all the day to day defects in flight along with the mitigating assumptions in the aircraft design than all your have is emotional the "sky is falling" headlines.
And yes they certainly are commercial pressures on everybody contributing to aviation including the regulator, pilots and engineers. So what else is new?