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It's not really a bug, but I didn't like it very much either...
I changed it to display 'Comments?' instead of 'Read more', by changing the news_block_top.html template.
The 'read more' part uses
<{$block.lang_read_more}>
I replaced this with
<{$smarty.const._NW_COMMENTS}>
Still not an ideal solution, but I rarely use the second textarea/'read more' part anyway, so that works for me.