This particular article was interesting to me because it gave an actual breakdown of the percentage of news coverage that was dedicated to that specific topic during the time of Obama's release of his birth certificate from different news organizations, such as Fox, CNN and MSNBC.
According to the article, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism found that during the week of April 11-17, Obama and the birth certificate issue filled only four percent of the news coverage. Additionally, 40 percent of news coverage was dedicated to the economy, the 2012 presidential election covered eight percent of the news and 15 percent was coverage of the Middle East.
As for television news coverage, the research found that MSNBC dedicated only about 10 percent of airtime to the birth certificate issue, CNN provided only five percent of its airtime to the issue and Fox News dedicated five percent as well.
I've noticed that despite the release of his birth certificate, there has been a lot of discussion as to why it has suddenly come about now and whether it is a legitimate document. To be honest, for all the radicals who believed that he was not an American citizen when he began his campaign back before 2008, providing the document three years into a four-year presidential term isn't going to do much to change their minds.
A majority of the non-believers have simply stated that this was plenty of time to make a fake birth certificate and have claimed that the document he produced was forged. At this point in time, who cares. He is almost done with his term and there is nothing that we, as a nation, can do about it even if it were a fake document. The best thing to do is to continue to focus on what really matters in our country, like our economy, our troops overseas and our next presidential election.
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