In order to boost the grass-roots development of society, and to accelerate national modernization, the scholars in mass communication circles have often in the past called for the pubication of community tabloids to provide "missing link" in mass communications.
因此，國內傳播學者認為，大眾媒介無法成為現代消息傳播和基層社會發展的主要媒介，必須發展像社區刊物一類的「小眾媒介」，以彌補現今大眾傳播的缺失，消滅傳播的死角，才能促進基層社會的成長，加速國家現代化的腳步。