In order to fill up the long time slots that make up these news programs and beat out the other guys in ratings, they scramble over each other for controversial and conflict-filled stories or they focus on soft consumer information messages or human interest stories.
為了塞滿冗長的新聞時段，又要在收視率上贏過對手，只得爭相競逐一些高度對立性或衝突性的社會事件，或把焦點放在軟性的消費資訊或趣味軼聞上。