Elections from various points of view

Hi everybody!

I looked at three online newspapers, in order to see if there are similarities or differences in the way the news about elections are proposed. The three newspapers I chose are:

El País (Spain);
The Guardian (United Kingdom)
Corriere della Sera (Italy).


These news sources are not partial, so the general contents of the news about the candidates I am following (McCain and Berlusconi) are reported more or less in the same way.
As regards the position of the news, I noticed that those about McCain is usually not presented in the first page, even if we’ve got exceptions in particular cases ( for example when McCain speaks with George Bush or when he does an important speech). I think that it happens because the focus is centred above all on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in fact their names appear more times than that of McCain in headlines and front pages. In The Guardian and in Corriere della Sera there are special pages about the American elections and profiles of the candidates are reported. There are also photos, useful links and various news linked to the elections. In El País the news about McCain is presented mostly like editorials or reportage, presenting photographs and videos.
As regards Berlusconi, the news about him are generally reported in the first page in Corriere della Sera, instead he is mentioned only in the world news in the other two newspapers. I think that it is so because in Italy in April there will be the elections, so now the focus is centred on the exponents of the two leading parties (PDL and PD). However, I noticed that, a couple of days ago, news about Berlusconi was present on the first page of El País; it was Berlusconi’s speech about a girl who has a precarious work, so he suggested her to get married with a millionaire, to avoid financial problems. This is obviously ridiculous, and so in El País there is a link with other Berlusconi’s howlers. I think that this fact is present only in El País because Spanish culture is more similar to ours than English and American culture, and so, like Italians, they emphasises ironical and strange aspects of things.
Bye!