There is a close, symbiotic relationship between the news media and those who are the focus of their reports, and of course the press hopes to maintain a good relationship with them. After the press made repeated appeals to the legislature, legislators quickly passed the "Freedom of Information Act," which delineated what sorts of information were fair game for journalists to make public, thus setting clear rules of the game.
新聞界與採訪對象有著密切的「共生」關係，當然希望和採訪對象維持良好互動，新聞界幾次在報上呼籲立法院，盡速通過「資訊公開法」，確立哪些資料或數據可以公開引用，讓記者有遊戲規則可循。