But veteran reporter Chou Yu-kou, known for writing The 1000 Days of President Lee, which revolves around the political struggles which President Lee Teng-hui faced after taking office, observes that when writing critical biographies of this kind it is extremely important to first fully understand the background, standpoint, and approach to issues of all one's sources, and to apply the principles of "independent confirmation and balanced reporting."
以李總統上任後的政壇紛爭為主軸，寫出「李登輝的一千天」而知名的資深記者周玉蔻則指出，寫這類評傳時，事先充分瞭解各個資訊提供者的背景、立場、談問題的方式等等，是非常重要的，同時要顧及「交叉求證、平衡報導」的原則。