Veteran political reporter Keng Jung-shui (who writes under the pseudonym Hsu Tse) reveals that when he was writing Striding Towards the Presidency--Lin Yang-kang, he relied completely on his friend ships with people in the political arena and on his understanding of politics, built up over more than 20 years as a reporter.
資深政治記者耿榮水（筆名徐策）指出，他在寫「邁向總統之路﹘﹘林洋港」時，憑的只是身為記者，二十多年來和政壇人物的交情與對政情的瞭解。