Put yourself in his shoes for a moment. He is probably highly annoyed at all the emails he has gotten from pilots over this.
To use your turn of phrase FGD, "suck it up princess"!
Journalists are responsible for publishing either factual or opinion pieces for the general public's consumption. His piece was certainly not an opinion piece, and it definitely didn't have any fact to it so say again why we as readers of his article should not be able to email him pointing the errors in his writing?