The Taipei Society, a group of reformist academics, has severely criticized the DPP for making virtually all appointments to publicly owned radio, TV, and wire services into political patronage.
澄社就曾嚴厲批判，自民進黨執政後，各公有媒體，從電台、電視到通訊社，其人事任命幾乎都是政治酬庸。