doxa.comunicación | 29, pp. 113-137 | 121

July-December of 2019

Noel Bandera López

ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978

or something similar (as if he has offended the fellow debaters or that “things are getting heated”), which seeks to discredit the positions of the interviewee. This happens with Pere Mas or J.C. Monedero.

Despite placing much emphasis on the economic aspects of the situation in Catalonia, there are hardly any economists in the two programmes. Besides, these analysts display little pluralism, as they are almost all from the PSOE arena: Miguel Sebastián was minister in the government of Rodríguez Zapatero, Gonzalo Bernardos defines himself as “a social democrat” and José Carlos Díez was appointed as coordinator of the economic area for the thirty-ninth PSOE congress.

TABLE II: Media Pluralism in Las Mañanas de Cuatro (17th October 17 th November, 2017)

Communication Media

Total appearances as fellow debaters

Interventions

as interviewees

Total counter-arguments

received

(Reporters without any specific affiliation and linked to PRISA)

11

3

0.5

(Court Journalists without any specific affiliation)

0

9

0

Público.es

10

0

1.33

(Conservative Reporters without any specific affiliation)

9

0

7

ABC

9

0

2,33

Diari Ara

7

5

6.67

El Mon

7

0

3.5

RAC1

6

10

28,33

13TV

6

0

1,17

La Razón

6

0

0

Huffington Post

6

0

1

República.com

5

0

0

El Confidencial

5

11

0

Diario 16

5

0

1.5

El Independiente

4

0

1.33

ATTAC

4

0

0

El Economista

4

0

0

OKDiario

3

0

3.83

La Ser

3

0

0

Infolibre

3

0

0

La Marea

3

0

0.5