Nowhere is it disclosed who reached out to whom or for what...

Nowhere is it disclosed who reached out to whom or for what purpose. Nowhere does it provide evidence for the claims made it the article. This isn't journalism, it is an undisclosed advertisement. One from a writer who has exhibited a pattern of behaviour, that in the past I could have put down to a mixture of poor journalism/complex scenario. But this crosses an ethical line that forces me to believe thers is an agenda at play.

I think the "they just want to sell papers" is a nonsense point. They could just as easily as say AVZ is going to be $10 and get more attention, as evidenced by the 100+ like posts on AVZ that the non holding brigade so often lament.