Friday’s jobs report provided a highly effective Rorschach test for our major newsrooms. And many other newsrooms saw the report, with its record low unemployment numbers, as hugely positive. Let’s take a look:Washington PostHeadline: U.S. economy added just 199,000 jobs in December, before labor market confronted omicron surgeThe headline and the lead both focused on the negative. She also wrote:The labor market, while still recovering from the pandemic, is entering the year on much better footing than it did at the start of 2021. But the Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday suggested the jobs market was at or near maximum employment.

Source: Washington Post January 08, 2022 05:42 UTC