According to a report released by an advertising association, Taiwan's media have given too much coverage to tabloid news -- particularly sex-scandals and lottery-related issues -- in January and February this year.
The report said that some media were even suspected of advertising for the former chief of Hsinchu's Cultural Affairs Bureau, Chu Mei-feng (璩美鳳), who was secretly taped allegedly having sex with her married lover last year.
And since TaipeiBank began to issue lottery tickets early this year, the national media have also contracted "lottery fever."
The report shows that subjects about Chu and the lottery occupied about 70 percent of discussion on last month's TV call-in programs.
The report, which was released by the Taiwan Advertisement Association, is based on several studies conducted by the Association of Taiwan Journalists (
According to the Association of Taiwan Journalists' study, the lottery accounted for 56 of the 266 subjects discussed during call-in programs.
The same study also revealed that Chu became a major topic of discussion when she revealed her plans to publish a book on her relations with her lovers.
Among the 50 non-political subjects of call-in programs last month, Chu's topics accounted for 14 and the lottery 20.
As for coverage and discussion of the lottery, the Association of Taiwan Journalists and the Taiwan Media Watch Educational Foundation's reports both suggested that a cable TV station led the way.
But the Taiwan Media Watch Educational Foundation (
Taiwan is stepping up plans to create self-sufficient supply chains for combat drones and increase foreign orders from the US to counter China’s numerical superiority, a defense official said on Saturday. Commenting on condition of anonymity, the official said the nation’s armed forces are in agreement with US Admiral Samuel Paparo’s assessment that Taiwan’s military must be prepared to turn the nation’s waters into a “hellscape” for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Paparo, the commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, reiterated the concept during a Congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday. He first coined the term in a security conference last
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck eastern Taiwan's Hualien County at 8:31am today, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). The epicenter of the temblor was located in Hualien County, about 70.3 kilometers south southwest of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 23.2km, according to the administration. There were no immediate reports of damage resulting from the quake. The earthquake's intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Taitung County, where it measured 3 on Taiwan's 7-tier intensity scale. The quake also measured an intensity of 2 in Hualien and Nantou counties, the CWA said.
The Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) yesterday announced a fundraising campaign to support survivors of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28, with two prayer events scheduled in Taipei and Taichung later this week. “While initial rescue operations have concluded [in Myanmar], many survivors are now facing increasingly difficult living conditions,” OCAC Minister Hsu Chia-ching (徐佳青) told a news conference in Taipei. The fundraising campaign, which runs through May 31, is focused on supporting the reconstruction of damaged overseas compatriot schools, assisting students from Myanmar in Taiwan, and providing essential items, such as drinking water, food and medical supplies,
Prosecutors today declined to say who was questioned regarding alleged forgery on petitions to recall Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, after Chinese-language media earlier reported that members of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Youth League were brought in for questioning. The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau confirmed that two people had been questioned, but did not disclose any further information about the ongoing investigation. KMT Youth League members Lee Hsiao-liang (李孝亮) and Liu Szu-yin (劉思吟) — who are leading the effort to recall DPP caucus chief executive Rosalia Wu (吳思瑤) and Legislator Wu Pei-yi (吳沛憶) — both posted on Facebook saying: “I
RSS