The meeting, hosted by the DPP legislative caucus's education policy subcommittee on July 14, invited GIO director Chung as well as communication and law professors there to exchange opinions on the new government's media policy.
DPP lawmakers who have long preached ridding the media of political influence asked what the difference was between the KMT administration and the new government if the GIO simply "connived" to maintain the status quo.
The July 14 meeting ended with no consensus except an agreement to hold further discussions in the future.
The gulf between the GIO's opinions and those of the academic community and the DPP reveal complications in media reform issues in the wake of the change of government. Media democracy undoubtedly is an important index of political democracy.
From personnel reshuffles at TV stations to the dispute about media reform, the government seems unable to carry the public with it.
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