Following the DPP's declaration of its determination to get political institutions out of the media, KMT chairman Lien Chan called on party officials and public office holders to withdraw from all management roles in the electronic media, and promised to put all KMT-run media into blind trusts by the end of the year.
隨著執政黨宣誓黨政軍退出媒體的決心，在野的國民黨主席連戰也要求黨職人員全數退出廣電媒體經營，並在年底前將黨營媒體交付信託。