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> I find it odd that The Register used a biased headline, while delegating the unbiased phrase to the role of a subheading.

The only thing odd about that is that The Register has a more neutral tone in it's subheading than normal. The main headline is using the default Register style (and if you go to the Reg's front page, you'll see plenty of tabloid-esque subheadings).

I suspect that since this has been the Reg's modus operandi for years, that there's no need for an editor to write headlines by now - the staff writers know what's expected and probably use the house style already. If anything, it's the po-faced subheading that's likely to have been tampered with on an ad-hoc basis.