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Sensationalism and attention seeking is why.

And the subjunctive mode indicated by "may" usually evaluates to "is not" in new articles.

There's some "law" associated with that sensationalism news article observation, but I don't know its name offhand.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines states (roughly) that "headlines in the form of a question can usually be answered with 'no'".

Thanks!

Keep in mind it's "usually", not "always". Some people take that law to mean "always", especially here on hackernews.