Finally, the Consequences framing is the least usual in the texts being analysed: 6.5% in elpais.com and 7.1% in lavanguardia.com. Generally, this refers to contents alluding to health consequences for consumers such as “I didn’t drink alcohol for a whole month, and this is what happened” (elpais.com, 12/05/2017), “Eating gluten-free can damage the cardiovascular health of non-coeliacs” (lavanguardia.com, 04/05/2017).

4.5. Sources

The two newspapers being analysed show divergences regarding the sources used. The first difference refers to the number of sources used. In this aspect, elpais.com, with an average of 3.3 references per article practically doubles the figures for lavanguardia.com (1,7). In addition, in elpais.com the number of news items that do not explicitly quote a source is much lower (4.9%); compared to the Catalan publication (12.5%).

Table 10: Number of sources quoted in the texts

Source: Compiled by author.