Chen Yin-hsia, assistant director of the China Times 'news center, says that the high cost of news coverage by broadcast media means that Taiwan's television stations buy most of their international news from foreign sources. None of the local stations try to scoop international news, nor do they attempt to compete in terms of quality. It is almost as if there is an unspoken agreement among them to avoid driving up costs.
中國時報文化新聞中心副主任陳映霞指出，由於電子媒體成本高，目前電視台大部分的國際新聞來自於外電，大家有「默契」地不要求國際新聞的獨家，也不在品質方面競爭，巧妙地共同規避了成本。