Making off with vegetables After the lifting of the ban on new newspapers (in 1987), the number of papers increased from 31 to over 300 at the present. The number of magazines increased from about 2000 to over 5000. Competition and diversity in the print media began in turn to affect the electronic media, and the former monopoly on news held by the three government-run television stations has been broken by cable TV.
開放報禁以後，台灣報紙從卅一家，增加到現在近三百家，雜誌也由三千家增加到近五千家，文字媒體的競爭，也帶動電子媒體的改變，三家電視台獨佔的局面逐漸打破。