lol
If you ask your girlfriend about rumors that she's going to break up with you soon, and she says "I don't know, ask me in a week", that's not a great sign for your relationship.
I don't think these are the same thing.
If you have to ask your girlfriend if she's going to break up with you soon, then you just might have bigger problems let alone putting that idea into her head if she hadn't thought of it before. That might just get her thinking, "why does he think I'm leaving soon? Do I have a reason to leave soon?". Way to go, self fulfilling prophecy.
Maybe ask a different question that's further upstream like, "What can I do to help our relationship?", or "what can I do to bring you happiness?" or some such thing.
I guess it's possible the media is trying to be that dumb boyfriend type reporter to get hits, and like some other poster said in here somewhere, we have people here dumb enough to react. Many media types only want a reaction. Reaction = win.