Oblomov Boblomov wrote:I wonder if it is 'just' unconscious bias (didn't the Tories force the BBC to cut funding for training?!) or something more sinister, as in someone has stood over a shoulder and instructed to use the verbs in that way
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Unless/until we see a pattern, I'd put it down to the journalistic thing of avoiding repetition, so they used a different phrase in the second sentence. If they continue to put things in those same terms, then it looks biased.
EDIT: Though there is plenty of other repetition in there.