The Cabinet will study law revisions to restrict embedded advertisements disguised as television programs or news reports, according to a consensus reached at a high-level meeting Tuesday. Participants at the meeting said the Executive Yuan will immediately embark on amending the law so that government agencies will no longer be able to buy news coverage or engage in embedded advertising containing political messages. The ruling Kuomintang's (KMT's) legislative caucus has agreed to work toward such legislation. Until the law is amended, government agencies are required to 'practice self- discipline, ' according to the participants, who included Liao Liou-yi, Lin Join-sane, and King Pu-tsung, secretaries- general of the Presidential Office, the Executive Yuan and the KMT, respectively, as well as Lin Yi-shih, director of the KMT's Central Policy Committee and Lin Tsang-min, KMT legislative whip. The spokesmen of the Presidential Office, Government Information Office and KMT -- -Lo Chih-chiang, Johnny Chiang and Su Jun-pin, respectively -- were also present at the meeting. Meanwhile, the KMT and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) reached an initial agreement on a proposal that ads publicizing government policies should not appear on news pages in the form of embedded advertisements. Rather, they should be clearly marked as 'advertisements.' The DPP legislative caucus proposed that all government agencies while publicizing their policies should make a distinction between such ads and real news, and that such ads should not appear as embedded advertisement in the form of seminars or special reports. In addition, they should be clearly marked as policy promotions or advertisements and the name of the government agencies placing the ad should also be clearly shown. The debate on embedded advertisements has become a hot topic after a former reporter wrote in his blog about the growing trend of the government to buy news coverage and a recent decision by the National Communications Commission to not to renew a licence for a TV channel accused of multiple violations in this regard. 