Are we Getting Selective Reporting on Public Service Job Losses?

 The news coverage of the Public Service Job losses is frustrating. 

There is outrage and people in high dudgeon at job losses being reported, but the Public Service grew by about 28% in the period 2017-23, and that gets scant mention. 

That growth is more than twice the rate at which the rest of the workforce grew, and the staffing levels are dropping back to where they were about 2019 - and that also gets little coverage, if any.

It's looking ever more like data that doesn't suit a particular narrative gets ignored by legacy media. Alternatively, and worse, is that the numbers simply are not understood.

That's profoundly disappointing, and paves the way for alternative media to rush in to the information vacuum, after people figure out they are not getting the whole story. 

But what will their information look like, and how reliable and valid will it be from those sources?