We are so used to doom and negativity in the news that we discard any positive news outright... which creates a self-reinforcing feedback loop that everything is terrible all the time.
Declaring great success at the moment a course of action of decided on is going to be more productive for generalized cynicism than stories of bad things that have actually happened.
Pretend this were reported as "Long Beach allows containers to be stacked higher in order to deal with a glut of empty containers" rather than Randian Superhero Casually Solves Port Problem, and Miraculously the Parasitic Bureaucrats Are Forced to Listen to Him by the People of Twitter, and By the Way, Why Can't We Demolish Neighborhoods and Replace Them With SROs?
Wouldn't more cynicism be engendered by the second story than the first if the change turns out to be ineffective or even destructive?
