By Chen Ping-hung 陳炳宏
Wed, Jan 12, 2011,Page 8
On Jan. 3, Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), on the instruction of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), announced that “the government shall not buy news, and advertorials embedded in programming should be properly labeled.”
Then, as a formal response to a statement by a group of academics protesting against embedded government advertorials in the media, the Government Information Office issued a document listing issues that government agencies should pay attention to when planning the dissemination of their policies.