This is actually quite illuminating by itself. I saw nothing in the registration that required someone to be a professional pilot in order to comment or ask questions. I would suggest you contact the administrator to make your forum invite only. This way you may be able to hide what is apparently a shared and very deep, almost paranoid defensiveness from the general public.
First; how, exactly would a "media hack" get a reliable source off an anonymous board? Make up a name of, or ascribe it to someone's nickname.
Second; if I was some nefarious professional reporter, why would I have admitted right off that I was not a pilot? Believe me, by not doing so and with a little "pushing", a good reporter could have gotten some really juicy "quotes".
Pilots and the work they do has long been a source of admiration to me. I had always hoped that without the physical problems that made me unable to fly, I might have been able to fly. But you really need to thicken your skins a little bit. That way maybe you could provide those outside the brotherhood (or sisterhood) with a viewpoint other than paranoid defensiveness and general overall arrogance.