If RYR management can chat to a reporter and get them to publish their clap-trap, why can't pilots chat to a reporter and get them to publish the pilots' side of the story.
Long time ago allegedly a certain spouse of a certain executive at a certain airline was involved in an altercation with a person of the other gender at a function. The conduct was drunken, aggressive and scared the victim.
No charges were ever laid, the story passed over in the print media as a mere 'small discussion'. The editor was afforded first class travel as 'guests' of the said airline.
Unfortunately until pilots can provide such 'coincidental upside' there is little prospect of the 'other side' ever being told..