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Likely because they're a local news station with reasonable journalistic integrity who expect that their readership wants to gasp read news. This attitude to me is depressing and completely ethically bankrupt – that a fascist news piece with a hyper-clickable headline is better than one that just discusses the news undramatically as it is.
A catchy headline is mandatory for news to get views. The headline of WashingtonExaminer isn't a lie either. In fact it shows what people would likely be most interested in.