Yin Yun-peng, CommonWealth's editor-in-chief, answered by arguing that the magazine was interested in Taiwan's industry and commerce and in businesses 'competitive strategies. She felt that if the structure of the newspaper market was changing so that individual papers were printing I million copies a day, then it could have an enormous impact and was a worthy topic for public discussion.
天下雜誌總編輯殷允芃則一再重申，天下向來關心台灣產業變化、競爭策略；攸關百萬發行的報業結構改變，是影響深遠的公共議題。