Taiwan: media and independent music · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

Sounds and Fury has an angry post commenting on the mainstream media's attitude towards independent music during the recent 3 days annual independent music festival. The writer links the development of music industry with media reform (zh).
“The issue at stake is not only whether or not they reports on the independent music festival. The Arts and Movie page in the newspapers has becoming more and more shallow that people just treat them as ‘entertainment’ page. Therefore we only have scandals about singers and movie stars or gossiping pieces on their clothing style, etc. There aren't any discussion or analysis concerning the music and the environment of the industry… in the end, the quality of Taiwan music will deteriorate.”