"For most products, competition improves quality while lowering the price. But newspapers are different. The more intense the competition, the more inflammatory the contents," says Huangfu Ho-wang. Taking the US as an example, he says that though the US population is more than ten times that of Taiwan, the largest newspaper has a circulation of only 1.8 million.
「一般商品因為競爭，往往可以提高品質、降低售價；但報紙不同，競爭愈激烈，內容愈聳動」，皇甫河旺以美國報業為例，美國人口比我們多十倍，但最大發行量的報紙也只有一百八十多萬份，「台灣報紙對於目前數十萬份的發行量有什麼不滿足的？