Something more about the elections!

Hi girls!!

Well, for this activity I focused on three newspapers: “New York Times”, “El Paìs” and “Corriere della Sera”. I analized these newspapers for three days, trying to compare how they treat the same news. Let’s have a look to what I found!

From New York Times:

Obama Rejects Idea of Back Seat on Ticket (11th March)
In this article Mrs. Clinton and her husband , former president Bill Clinton, tell the voters in Missisipi that Senator Barack Obama would make a fine partner on the Democratic ticket. Obama affirmed that the Clintons were being duplicitous in their offer; they said that on one hand he was not ready to be president, but that on the other, he could solve the party’s political impasse by joining together. He said: “I don’t know how somebody who’s in second place can offer the vice presidency to someone who’s in first place.”. As the crowd cheered, he said: “If I’m not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president? Do you understand that?”. Then he listed all his victories and he underlined his advantage towards Mrs. Clinton.

Democrats in a Fight to Define ‘Winner’ (12th March)
In this article it is explained how Mrs. Clinton and Obama are battling to define what it means to be winning. Mr. Obama is emphasizing his lead in the popular vote and in pledged delegates and his victories in states that Democrats have trouble carrying in general elections; Mrs. Clinton has focused on her victories in states with the most Electoral College votes, like Ohio and California, and her strength among groups like women, blue-collar workers and Hispanics.

Democrats Face Racial Issue Again (13th March)
In this article comes out the problem of race during elections; it refers to Geraldine A. Ferrero, the Democratic resigned from the campaign after being criticized by Mr. Obama’s advisers, among others, for her recent comments that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position” as a leading presidential contender. Mrs. Clinton called it regrettable but did not take any action. Mr. Obama said he did not believe that there was “a directive in the Clinton campaign saying, ‘Let’s heighten the racial elements in the campaign.’ I certainly wouldn’t want to think that.” “I don’t want to deny the role of race and gender in our society,” he said. “They’re there, and they’re powerful. But I don’t think it’s productive."

As you can notice, in New York Times the articles about American elections are very detailed; what is more, they develop a lot of topics related to the elections, such as the problem of race or the strategies adopted by the two candidates. In this newspaper there are also a lot of videos or links about the elections and the candidates in particular.

From El Paìs.COM:

Obama and Clinton compete in Missisipi (11th March)
This article concearns the same topic of the New York Times' article on 11th March but it stresses the fact that in Missisipi Obama has more possibilities to win than Mrs. Clinton.

Obama win and he steps up his advantage in Missisipi (12th March)
This Spanish newspaper focuses on the winnings of Obama in Missisipi and it emphasizes the fact that he is ahead of Mrs.Clinton; moreover, it reports the speech in which Obama said that he would never be the vice president.

A democratic assessor of Clinton resigned for ratial comments against Obama (13th March)
This article treats the problem of race as New York Times did; moreover, it says that this great historic possibility which was represented by the competitiveness between both the first women and the afroamerican, who could go to the White House, it is becoming a terrible obstacle for Country's unity. It is proved by the elections' results in Missisipi: Obama got 90% of vote from black people and Clinton got the 70% of vote from white people.

The articles I read in El Paìs are very similar to those ones written in New York Times; obviously, the Spanish newspaper treat the same topics in a less detailed way than New York Times.

Then I tried to find in Corriere della Sera the same articles which I found both in New York Times and El Paìs but I couldn’t find them. In Corriere della Sera, in the link called “international” there were just these articles:

• Washington, the “sin city” of politicians, the New York’s Governor Spitzer in trouble. (11th March)

• Spitzer resignation (12^th March)
  
• No connection with Al Quaeda-Saddam. (13^th March)

So, I noticed that Corriere della Sera gives not so much importance to United States as El Paìs do; the former is more focused on Italy. It seems that this Italian newspaper is more interested in American gossip, such as Spitzer’s sex scandal than the elections.

That's all girls!!

See you on Monday!!