Among the media which receive more refutations, we should explain the case of La Razón, whose elevated number comes almost exclusively from a particular programme in which the moderator and a journalist from this media argued repeatedly about one very specific point. Something similar happens with the Promecal Group, since all refutations received dealt with one single issue: whether the song which accompanied a report on Informe Semanal about Carles Puigdemont was the soundtrack of The Exorcist or not. This level of detail in the controversy is significant in hindering the real debate concerning deep and important matters.

If we observe the data from the Catalan press, we find an overwhelming division between the treatment received by the non-sovereignist media and that received by the sovereignist media. Thus, Nació digital suffers 20 counter-arguments, the highest number of all the interventions despite being the sixteenth in terms of presence on the programme. If we group El Periódico and La Vanguardia together, on the one hand, and TV3, Nació digital and ElNacional.cat, on the other, we find that the former had enjoyed 13 appearances as fellow debaters and 93 interventions as interviewees, receiving 1.33 in the counter-argument index, while the latter (media closer to Catalan sovereignist positions) enjoyed 11 appearances and 32 interventions, as well as 32 counter-arguments. Therefore, despite intervening less frequently, the most sovereignist media suffered 24 refutations for each refutation that the guests of El Periódico and La Vanguardia suffered.

TABLE I: Media Pluralism in Al Rojo Vivo (17 th October – 17 th November, 2017)