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SECTION OR GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF
INFORMATION
NUMBER OF NEWS
Regional 2
National 3
International
National/International (news concerning
both Spain and the EU)
17 (all concerning the EU, apart from
one information about China)
2
Editors 7
People
3 (opinions of Prince Charles of
England)
Table 7: Section of the newspaper where information about GMO appears. Geographic
provenance of the news.
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ACTORS
NUMBER OF NEWS
187
Ecologist 13
Institutions 5
Parties 1
Biotechnological companies 3
FEDERALISM, DIRECT
DEMOCRACY AND THE
QUALITY OF PUBLIC
DELIBERATION: THE
GMO DEBATE
José Luis Egío
Scientist, experts 3
Editors 4
People
3 (Prince Charles of England)
Other medias 2
Religious groups 1
Table 8: Political and social actors who explain their point of view or whose opinions
are reported
As a preliminary interpretation of the information gathered, we
should remark: