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本帖最后由 okqishi 于 2012-5-7 22:51 编辑

4）Scandals are useful because they focusour attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.

Not any society can claim to be devoid of problems, and considerable effort has always been taken to cast light onproblems and solutions. Which is the better way to bring social problems topublic attention, as is the ever-heating debate, by revealing scandals or bythe propaganda of reformation and achievements? Such a question is to be leftopen in its nature, though from several perspectives scandals really have animpact on social concerns.

Just ask Google how many times a pieceof news had been clicked, and it is intuitive for us to get an impression that onetends to pay more attention to negative news while take the positivecounterpart for granted. Conspicuous and notorious as they usually are,scandals draw magnitudes of public attention at such a speed and in such ascale that few other events can match, and engage the society in defining andsolving the problem as a whole, taking manifold opinions into account. The Watergate Scandal raised attention from legislation, judicial and executive branches as well as civilians and the media, and the resolution of the political burglary lead to more reasonable political practices. After all theseyears this lesson remained fresh, while many other political propagandas,though once was spoken out aloud, have faded away.

Scandals’ striking nature is notnecessarily long-lasting. In fact, the pain in revealing a scandal can wear outas the practice repeats itself and makes the public apathetic. As was talk ofthe town in China two years ago, a so-called “anti-deceptionist” namedFangzhouzi disclosed that several celebrities had faked their academic diploma.The reveal caused society-wide incredulity in claimed academic success, andhopefully, some introspection in academic activities. However, as thedisclosure continued and more famous people were revealed of fallacies ---significant or negligible, the scandals themselves became trivia and the publicturned indifferent to them.

It is true that scandals are useful indrawing attention problems. Nevertheless, they are far from providing the cureto those problems, which can only be addressed by real introspection and reformation.Consider a society relying merely on scandals to reveal problems, with nomeasure being taken to settle any of them, and it is likely to infer that the society is at the edge of collapse, where the void of security or trust, infectious among the community, dampens the hope of its people and thus in turn hinders the effectiveness of any reformation. Although admittedly there is nopanacea for any social concern, speakers and reformers of certain kinds aredispensable to stand out, and to ensure efforts be made to get the issue out ofthe swamp, since revealing the problem is only the first step to get it solved.

In sum, scandals have the power in focusingpublic attention on social issues at a spanking rate and a considerable scale,but they are not the cure for those problems once and for always.

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发表于 2012-5-7 22:27:04 |只看该作者

我觉得lz的破题已经很好了。
让步同意：丑闻让我们关注到了改革者和speaker没有办法让我们关注到的问题。
驳论点：但这未必就带来良好的社会效果（useful）。
原因1：丑闻并不持久，人们会将其遗忘。
原因2：丑闻无法解决问题。

我的建议是，可以在最开始讨论一下关于useful的概念。
我们说丑闻有效，那么这个有效怎么定义呢？是吸引了人们的广泛关注和讨论就算有效了呢，还是说要真的引导社会对该问题进行思考，并提出解决方案才算是有效呢？
我个人的观点是，在这个层面定义useful，应该是要对社会产生积极的影响，即丑闻能够起到舆论监督的作用。换句话说，丑闻如果能够引发人们的关注并且思考和探讨这个问题，推进问题的解决才算是真正的有效。不然的话，仅仅吸引眼球，那只能算是满足人们的猎奇心理，并未起到任何有益社会的作用。
我觉得这样的话，可以把你的观点表达的更加清楚。
至于语言，这个不是我强项啊。可我觉得你的文笔很好了！
水门事件的那个例子大概叙述的有点水哈，如果能够根据论点再重新整合一下这个材料，具体说说丑闻怎么让人们关注到了speaker和reformer无法让人们关注的问题。

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