I have to listen to ABC News at work occasionally, and it's a tossup with them or NBC News to which is the worst liberal organ. I got into an argument with a co-worker one day after some lie ABC News spouted concerning unemployment. The blurb they came out with said that too many people can't find work. This when the unemployment rate was at about 4.6% They only report the American soldier and Iraqi civilian deaths in the Iraq War and never any positive developments or enemy casualties.
I guess I'd side with your co-worker on the lack of veracity of the employment report. Most new "jobs" were created by the birth-death statistical model, not counted. The truer rate (if one were to count people who did not have a job but wanted one) would be just under 10%. Of course, it isn't actually possible to count every one, but careful sampling exercises have been conducted that lead to the 10% conclusion. I personally know people who gave up the job hunt and are outside the Labor Department models.