At
the press conference, Francesc Cano,
one of the study's authors and a professor in the UIC Faculty of Communication
Sciences, explained that 76% of the MPs read a newspaper every day, 75% listen
to the radio and 69% watch television. He said, “Not everyone is in the habit
of keeping abreast of the news on a daily basis”.

He
went on to explain that, depending on the means of keeping up to date with the
news, there are three types of MP: those who inform themselves at night, those
who do so in the morning and those who don't do it at all.

Agustí Colomines, the director of
the CatDem Foundation, described the fact that 25% of MPs do not follow the
news regularly as worrying. He criticized them by saying, “It's one thing to
ignore what's being said, but quite another to live in a bubble”.

According
to the survey, the “typical MP” reads La Vanguardia, listens to Catalunya Ràdio, reads E-notícies on line and regularly follows
the columns of Francesc
Marc-Álvaro and Pilar Rahola.

According
to the data, 76.7% read a newspaper every day, 17.17% do so three or four times
a week and 6.06% do so once or twice a week.

The
most popular newspaper is La Vanguardia,
but the choice tends to vary between the different political parties and be based
on their political leanings: the most popular among members of CiU is La Vanguardia;
for members of the PSC and the ICV, it is El País; members of the PP opt for El Mundo;
and the newspaper of choice among members of the ERC is Ara.

As
for radio news, 75% tune in on a daily basis, 9.09% listen three or four times
a week and 5.05% do so once or twice a week. The most listened-to radio station
among MPs is Catalunya Ràdio,
with 71.7% tuning in, but once again preferences vary according to political
affiliation. The most popular station among members of CiU and the PP is Rac1, Cadena Ser is the favourite
among the socialists and Catalunya Ràdio
is favoured by members of the ICV and the ERC.

In
terms of television, 96.8% of MPs prefer to stay abreast of current affairs by
watching TV3, followed by La1 and then 8tv, “thanks to members of CiU”.

All
MPs gave the impartiality of Catalan public media a poor rating, with Catalunya Informació
coming closest to achieving a good score. Cano said that he considered this a
good sign because it meant that the demands for control and supervision of the powers
that be were not being satisfied.

Ninety-nine
of the 135 members of parliament responded to the questionnaire and they
represented the whole political spectrum (48 from CiU, 22 from the PSC, seven
from the PP, 10 from the ICV, eight from the ERC, two from SI and two from
C's).