According to Tang, the news department divided political news during the election into two categories; one focused on coverage of top government officials, while the other focused on election news. Each candidate received equal amounts of election coverage, but "a lot of people thought we were favoring the KMT," says Tang, "because we devoted a lot of non-election political coverage to what the government was doing.
他說，選舉時中視新聞部對政治新聞的處理分成兩個部分，首先是政府首長的新聞，其次各候選人新聞篇幅再平均分配。