U.S.elections vs Italy's elections

I followed three online newspapers during the last week which are the New York Times, Berliner Morgenpost and Corriere della sera in order to find out how the upcoming elections in Italy and the United States are being followed by the journalists in different countries. Of course, I expected the NYTimes to be particularly focused on the elections in the U.S. and the Corriere on elections in Italy. Instead, I noticed that both newspapers are more concerned about the American elections. There was no article on Italy's elections in April in the Times during the last three days. All I could find was an older article that said that the government in Italy had been interrupted caused by different opinions within the government. Whereas there is a huge amount of information as far as the U.S. elections are concerned. There are statistics, videos, opinion polls etc.
The Corriere being an Italian newspaper deals a lot with the elections in its country but there are no statistics or opinion polls. The articles are about the campaigns Veltroni and Berlusconi are holding in this period and what the politics want to change in Italy's politics. There is no special section regarding the elections and candidates of Italy but there is a special section that gives the reader all the information about the American elections. There are links and guides on how the American president is being voted and videos of the 3-year-old Hillary Clinton. I think this is a weird. I mean the position of the president of the United States might be the most powerful in the world and they're posting those kind of videos on purpose in the States where people should vote for Clinton/Obama ecc but why giving more information about a foreign country than about your own? I think here it is pretty much obvious what big influence America has on Europe.
Then I had a look at a neutral country which is Germany. In the Berliner Morgenpost I couldn't find articles on Italy, either. I typed "Italy" in the search space and all I could find was an article that said the government had failed and Italians will go to political elections for the 62nd time after World War 2. There was no article about who will be the next candidates ecc. As far as America is concerned there were a lot of articles. I think there was one for each day and they're similar to the ones in the Corriere and the Times. They give very detailed information about the candidates of the left wing (Clinton/Obama) and about their campaigns. There was also background information about Obama's priest and longtime friend who held speeches in which he was against the "rich white America" and information about Clinton's people, too. The German newspaper follows the American elections very detailed and the Russian elections, too. There were articles like "Who is the man Vladimir Putin?" ecc just like for the Americans. Instead, Italy wasn't mentioned at all. I think America is seen much more important to Germans even for historical reasons and so is Russia.
I used the following websites in order to fulfil the task:1) Corriere della sera speciale esteri
2) Corriere della sera politica 3) Berliner Morgenpost 4) Berliner Morgenpost/Italy 5) New York Times.