Yep, since Obama has been president, the MSM does not focus on the unemployment rate. Instead, they focus on jobs created, jobs saved, and jobs related to Porkulus.
How they calculate “jobs saved” is questionable, but if the MSM doesn’t ask the questions, then made-up numbers can be fed to the world through the MSM.
Why was the unemployment rate very important when Bush was president, but now doesn’t matter now that Obama is president?
I heard a few interviews with business owners at the time and they said if they received any government contracts at all someone from the government would call and question them about how many new employees they hired because of the contract. If the answer was none, as it usually was, the caller would then ask how many employees they would have let go without the contract. If the answer was none again the caller would keep cajoling them to agree that some jobs were saved. They said those callers were more persistent that door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen until most businessmen would finally give up and agree that some jobs may have been saved. Boom! Onto the list would go those "saved jobs" go.