That's an astounding amount of hair splitting to claim that the people in charge of governing - literally with the title "govern-or" - are not "the government."
I am describing how a democratic republic works. It is government by the people, for the people. There are government representatives, who if elected are partisan, and who are otherwise appointed or employed. The government of a republic is separate from these individuals and has an agenda of its own.
One of those agendas is publishing numerous economic data.
The individuals in service of the government and the media outlets that they talk to are where the proverbial cherry-picking takes place.
Partisan politicians and partisan media, not some incoherent notion of “the government.”