Which words are chosen to describe a story can radically alter the audience’s perception of the same events. This is something you see all the time in the news, and while we are aware of it to a degree, it is always interesting to see how something so ‘factual’ can be represented in such a wide variety of ways.

This is true of the latest tube statistics, which reflect the service in a brilliant light if you’re reading TfL’s version, or disastrously according papers like the Telegraph.

There are many ways to highlight and hide specific elements of the truth, and every story comes with an angle. A period of disturbances on the Tube can be presented as either a mere ‘dip’, or a ‘dire situation getting worse’.

The different agendas behind each company will influence the way they report the same news. It is just one more example to remind the public that objectivity can often be subjective.