NYT Does Public Relations Work for Emmanuel Macron

A New York Times article on the status of France’s president Emmanuel Macron gave him some free public relations work touting the decline in France’s unemployment rate to 8.1 percent. It tells readers:

“The intractable unemployment rate, slayer of his predecessors, appears finally to be bending to a French president’s touch, recently reaching its lowest rate in 12 years at 8.1 percent.”

This is a 1.4 percentage point drop from when Macron took office in May of 2017. In the same period, the...