It amended the Publication Law so that executive agencies could suspend papers or rescind their licenses without judicial process. The UDN wrote editorials against the amended law, and the head of the IEP published a front page declaration of his withdrawal from the KMT (to which he had belonged since the May Fourth Movement in 1919) and declared that his paper would adhere to an "independent, non-party line."
首先，出版法大幅修正，行政部門得不經司法程序，對報紙處以停刊、撤消登記的處分，輿論再次大譁，聯合報連續撰寫十篇社論期期以為不可，自立晚報社長李玉階宣佈從此脫離自「五四運動」後便加入的國民黨，並在報頭下方註明「無黨無派，獨立經營」，成為自立晚報多年來的招牌。