Well the actual Boston Globe story was headlined Jarring slowdown in hiring raises concern.  The story opened with:

Hiring ground to a halt last month, and the nation’s unemployment rate rose to its highest level this year, adding to the deep uncertainty about the pace of the nation’s economic recovery.

I posted the following comment (slightly edited here):

This article could just as well have been headlined “Layoffs Of Government Workers Causes Rise in Unemployment”.

The article does not mention that 57,000 jobs were created in the private sector. The reader has to figure that out by adding the 18,000 net jobs created and the 39,000 jobs cut from state and local governments mentioned by Alan Clayton-Mathews. Readers of this story have to derive the 57,000 private jobs created that are mentioned explicitly by other news media. Clayton-Matthews mentions that the cuts of government workers also lowers the figures for private employment if you count contractors and the like.

If the government jobs had not been lost, we would have had a rise of 55,000 jobs or maybe more (taking into account Clayton-Matthews statement.).

Boehner wonders where the jobs are when he knows the policies he favors are responsible for the state and local government layoffs.

If the public is to decide which is the best economic policy to follow – stimulus or deficit cutting – the news media providing the public knowledge must be smart enough to know how to give us all the data.

Could someone report to me the first occurrence of a news story in the main stream media that tilts the story in the direction I have suggested?  Is it a coincidence that every major media outlet is playing this story in exactly the same way?