Lin Kuo-ching, the former editor-in-chief and general manager of the China Times Express, argues that newspaper and television reporters are trained differently to meet different needs. In television there is little time to prepare. Reporters go to the scene of the news and first try to find things to film. Even a big news story only gets a few minutes.
曾任中時晚報總編輯、業務部總經理的傳訊電視總經理林國卿也指出，報社、電視記者的訓練、要求不同，電視作業時間短，記者到新聞現場先找鏡頭，再大的新聞也只有幾分鐘；報社記者比較有時間「扎根人脈關係」。