It was very unscientific. Relaxation of the regulation will take away the advantage that local papers had of coming out first, so they resisted it strongly. But in a free and open environment, competition among the big papers and the little ones is probably impossible to avoid.
這個限制打破後，地方報以往的優勢﹘ ﹘比台北報紙出得早﹘﹘沒有了，因此他們一度反對得很厲害，但在自由開放的環境中，大小報之間的競爭，恐怕是很難避免了。