glofish, I think that you are rather naive if you think that "The only ones who might suffer are the crap companies and the corrupt regulators." (And no, I am not one of 'the latter'.)
Journos are keen on big stories. Full Stop. If that 'big story' scares the travelling public so that they are illogically scared off using the safest form of transport that exists, the journos could not give two hoots. Scaring the public off flying may not hurt pilots physically, but it affects their jobs, even those in good companies (because the journos 'big stories' will always be indiscriminate), and that does hurt pilots.
Proper targeted actions against 'the crap companies and the corrupt regulators' is the only way to solve this problem, not blabbing to journos to help them with that 'big story'.