A new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that blacks as a group received little media attention during the first year of President Barack Obama's presidency.

The survey found “what coverage there was tended to focus more on specific episodes than on examining how broader issues and trends affected the lives of blacks generally.”

The study also noted: " ... 9% of the coverage of the nation's first black president and his administration during Obama's first year in office had some race angle to it. Here, too, this coverage was largely tied to specific incidents or controversies rather than to broader issues and themes"

The study reviewed more than 67,000 national news stories appearing between February 16, 2009 and February 15, 2010 in newspapers, on cable and network television, radio, and news websites.

“Just 643 of those stories, 1.9% of the total newshole examined by the study, related in a significant way to African Americans in the U.S. (To be considered a 'significant' part of a given story, 25% of the content of that story must be about a demographic group and its race/ethnicity),” the study reported. “However, this was more coverage than was given in the same time period to two other minority groups

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Hispanics (1.3%) and Asian Americans (0.2%). As a percentage African Americans make up 12.9% of the U.S. population.”