Newspapers!!!

What a mess this task! I had some difficulty in finding some newspaper articles about the electoral campaign dealing with the same topic. For this reason I focused my attention on the way in which some newspapers treat the political campaign. I made a comparison between USA and Italy and then I looked at a third source, two German newspapers.

These are my considerations:
There's a big difference between American online newspapers and Italian ones.
I read the New York Times and USA Today for American elections and Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica for Italian campaign. The first impression one may have, opening an Italian newspaper (as for politics) is of a situation that he/she doesn't understand. I mean, if you don't raed the newspaper every day, you don't follow what happens in the political campaign, you can't totaly understand the articles. That's because there are a lot of references to previous facts or declarations that journalists suppose the reader knows.
There isn't a comparison between all the parties based on issues or whatever else! So, if someone buys the newspaper in order to know the points of view of the parties and clarify his/her ideas, I'm sure he/she will understand anything!



American newspapers are well organized under this point of view. A part from the ordinary politics news regarding the candidates, both in the NY Times and in the USA Today there's a section in which the reader can understand what the candidates think about the most important topics of the political campaign, such as health care, Iraq, immigration, Education, Economy and so on.


German newspapers don't absolutely care about Italian electoral campaign, surely because it isn't as important as the American one. Talking about US election both Der Spiegel and Suddeutsche Zeitung have an entire section with interviews, opinions of the readers but also explanantions, videos and histories about the delegates.