[Slings and Arrows]

My guesses as to why:

1. The US has four times the population of the UK; i.e., four times the news, all things being equal.

2. It’s safer for UK papers to report on US events - UK libel laws are very biased in favor of the plaintiff.

3. Human nature - misery is more entertaining when it’s far away.

4. The US is the world’s big dog - when we bark, everybody hears.

[buffaloguy]

5. Many of the UK papers have US readership numbers that are extremely large.

[houeto]

My guesses as to why:

...and I have guesses as well. All of them disagree with your 1-4 starting with your population claims. I very well might be wrong but I can't data to back that first up.

It's all downhill for me after that. Not that it makes a whits bit of difference what I think. It doesn't.