The unhealthy relationship between 'La Razón' and unemployment

Today I conducted an experiment. I read the headline of The reason which says "Unemployment falls by 4,846 people in September, but employment only grows in large companies." We're at the end of the summer campaign, so it's normal that hiring in the hospitality and catering industry is down. The VanguardIn fact, the tone is very different: "Employment records its best September if you exclude the pandemic." It's a pathological pattern: since Sánchez has been in power, there's an unwritten law according to which every positive news story about unemployment must have its but. It doesn't matter that the rate during Sánchez's terms has dropped from more than 15% to 10.9% and that the forecast is to reach the single digits before the end of the year: the newspaper must always leave its objection, lest it be a case.

And this is where the experiment comes into play. I searched Google for news published by the Planeta newspaper with the word arrest from this past year and the pieces are overwhelmingly negative. So I did a new search, also with the word arrest But from 2017, when Don Mariano was still in power. Well, of the first ten results, there's only one news item that's actually about unemployment. And it's in a positive tone, of course: "Three out of four wage earners have a permanent contract." (The figure was 73%. Now it's over 77%, but the newspaper has stopped highlighting it, of course.) What's surprising is that the other nine results on the first page served by Google talk about such outlandish things as "Flower power: the day music stopped the war" or "Fandiño: the return to the land of the boy who wants to be a pelota player." That year, they spent their time looking at the finger pointing at the moon. Granted, any statistic can be whipped up until it says what you want, but this is starting to look like police abuse, to put it in police-sector terms.