This week we were supposed to follow political elections but with a wider view. In other words, we were meant to compare the elections and the way they are presented by three different countries.
I decided to follow the Italian 'Il giornale', which has a right inclination, the English newspaper 'the Times', and the Spanish newspaper 'El Mundo'.
At the beginning I thought of following just my candidates, Mc Cain and Berlusconi but I came out with some troubles: almost all the newspapers write about Clinton and Obama while Berlusconi and the Italian political elections are practically forgotten by those countries.
I must admit that this fact surprised me a bit; since the Italian tv and the Italian newspapers, in general, are all bombard with news about the national elections I expected more place for this topic even from abroad. A quite interesting thing that I noticed seaching for information about Italian political elections in the English Times was that the name of Prodi never appeared while that of Berlusconi was more cited. I think that this can be due to the fact that Berlusconi is more known all over the world but not only as a political figure but especially as an influent personality which has a great power among Italian people.
All the three newspapers contain a lot of information about the American primaries and often a special section is there to click on in order to get the latest events regarding political scenary in America.
As regards the amount of coverage, I saw that El Mundo prefers to give just fundamental news about the primaries and often concentrates more on the way they are held. Maybe this is due to the fact that not all the people in Spanish are concerned with the mechanism of the primaries so that the journalists have to specify some points which are not even taken into consideration by the Times, as they are thought to be understood by the English.
I decided to follow the Italian 'Il giornale', which has a right inclination, the English newspaper 'the Times', and the Spanish newspaper 'El Mundo'.
At the beginning I thought of following just my candidates, Mc Cain and Berlusconi but I came out with some troubles: almost all the newspapers write about Clinton and Obama while Berlusconi and the Italian political elections are practically forgotten by those countries.
I must admit that this fact surprised me a bit; since the Italian tv and the Italian newspapers, in general, are all bombard with news about the national elections I expected more place for this topic even from abroad. A quite interesting thing that I noticed seaching for information about Italian political elections in the English Times was that the name of Prodi never appeared while that of Berlusconi was more cited. I think that this can be due to the fact that Berlusconi is more known all over the world but not only as a political figure but especially as an influent personality which has a great power among Italian people.
All the three newspapers contain a lot of information about the American primaries and often a special section is there to click on in order to get the latest events regarding political scenary in America.
As regards the amount of coverage, I saw that El Mundo prefers to give just fundamental news about the primaries and often concentrates more on the way they are held. Maybe this is due to the fact that not all the people in Spanish are concerned with the mechanism of the primaries so that the journalists have to specify some points which are not even taken into consideration by the Times, as they are thought to be understood by the English.
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