Jung Fu-tien, assistant editor-in-chief at the China Times, and Hu Wen-hui, Jung's counterpart at the Liberty Times, both agree that when the ban was still in effect, the greatest external pressure newspapers faced was political.
中國時報副總編輯戎撫天和自由時報副總編輯胡文輝都同意，報禁前，報社承受的外部壓力主要來自政治考量。