TV stations 'obsession with ratings all but ensures that Taiwan's television news will be rife with exaggerated, sensational, and largely irrelevant news bites, because it seems that this is the only kind of information that can capture the gnat-like attention span of the Taiwanese audience.
頻道業者對收視率錙銖必較，使得台灣的電視新聞裡，總是充斥著簡短、誇張、聳動的瑣碎事件，彷彿只有這類訊息，才能緊緊抓住有著「過動」慣性的觀眾注意力。