Broadcast Controversy: Private TV Stations Demand Government Subsidies for Olympic Broadcast Rights, Criticized as 'Holding Viewers' Rights Hostage'

This article comments on Taiwan's failure to obtain Olympic broadcast rights in 2016. The author accuses domestic private television networks of refusing to broadcast the Olympics because government subsidies for purchasing broadcast rights were not forthcoming, which amounts to 'holding the viewing rights of all audiences hostage.' The article simultaneously satirizes the double standard held by some public opinion and netizens toward state-run television, opposing 'let politics and military withdraw from media' on ordinary days, yet praising foreign state-run media during Olympic coverage, criticizing this stance as 'pretentious.'