Where the Spin starts!

Watching Public Access TV tonight I caught a bit of the recent meeting of the local transit districts Board of Directors. Yes, the Public Bus people.

A staffer was seated at the table facing the Board Members and buzzing through a video presentation showing graphs that illustrated changes in ridership.

While most charts reflected the Recent Reduction in Bus Service, the presenter chose to linger on one particular graph which showed how that surprisingly enough a good number of routes actually showed a marked increase. Here comes the setup!

Moving on to the next chart the presenter was asked by a Board Member to stop and go back one frame. This was eventually accomplished after a good deal of fumbling.

Once back to the preceding screen the Board Member mentioned how they believed the shown increase in ridership on those particular routes were the direct result of other routes that earlier this year had been terminated of reduced.

It was an Ah Hah, Gotchya, kind of moment.

The presenter then agreed and they moved ahead.

My question is, how will the local News Media report the story?