Keng Jung-shui goes further to point out that for political figures, whether senior reporters write about them little or much and in a good or bad light can sometimes affect their whole future career. "A word of condemnation may fall heavier than the executioner's axe"; this places writers under a good deal of pressure.
耿榮水進一步指出，對政治人物而言，資深記者筆下報多、報少、報好、報壞，有時會有攸關前途的影響力，甚至「一字褒貶、嚴於斧鉞」，因此寫來壓力也不小。