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I probably was too brief - I did not intend to suggest that it was "fake news" or anything, just that the novelty was of an extremely narrow and specific kind. In looking around the internet at some journalism lingo, "churnalism" comes somewhat close to what I meant. Basically we have this 24/7 news cycle by for-profit companies that in an effort to maximize the stock dividends of their investors must spit out new content every minute of every hour of every day, regardless of how "important" that news is. Which isn't to say that H5N1 being deadly is not news-worthy! Though I am suggesting that all these articles on this precise subject matter (of this single polar bear having died from it) seem to have borrowed from the importance of being more deadly world-wide, in order to sell their stories about this singular individual bear.
Next we could have an article on the second polar bear to have died from it, or the third, or perhaps from the first female polar bear (or male, whichever is the opposite of the earlier one), or the first non-Alaskan polar bear to die from it etc. And while each new one can technically be "correct" and "novel", I would argue that at some point it is no longer "news-worthy". Yet apparently in this case I would be wrong, b/c some people seem very interested in this new fact!:-P
Come to think of it, it probably is b/c polar bears are cute. So rather than "clickbait", I probably should have said that it is "sensationalist news", meant more to shock and awe and "entertain" (even if in the negative sense) than to inform.
And thank you in return for the same:-).