Issue185求拍

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TOPIC: ISSUE185 - "Scandals-whether in politics, academia, or other areas-can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could."
WORDS: 609          TIME: 00:36:37          DATE: 2010-4-30 22:01:36

In the current society, the word 'scandal' often appears in the common conversations between the people. The speaker asserts that scandals can be useful whether it is in politics, academia or other areas, and they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. I could partially agree with the statement. In my point of view, scandals, which are extremely effective in drawing the attention of our society, could be both useful and unuseful, and even worse they could do damage to our society.

Scandals are effective in drawing the attention of the whole society. For long time, people have been aware that scandals about politics and academia are extremely attractive to the common citizens. It is especially apparent in the Internet. For example, there are often some threads about the plagiarism of scientific papers, the scandals of some politician or more generally the negative news for our society. These threads must have a great quantity of replies following. As far as we see, the degree that a post is concerned by the society is tightly relevant to the number of replies following it. That is to say, our people are highly concerned with how our society, our nation and our world runs, thus they are highly concerned with any scandal that is related to all of these since they think these scandals could have effects on their life and their beliefs. In addition, the effectiveness of a scandal is mainly determined by the degree of how it is concerned by the public.

Scandals could be useful. Speakers could only make speeches on limited places and they could only transfer their spirits to people who may concern them. The space and region of the communcation is thus limited to any speaker. Reformers are also the same. They could do suggestions to some communities. They can do no better than a little scandal to attract the whole public. From this view, scandals are powerful since they are attractive to us in a fastest and most effective way. More and more media have discovered that in order to solve a problem, a series of scandals must be uncovered to the public. In this sense, today, more magazine and newspaper organizations have opened an independent department, which is highly connected with political organizations and is aimed at better tackling problems of our society by receiving advices and discovering scandals with the public. As a result, this department could serve as an extremly effective way to solve problems for the fairness of politics and academia.

Scandals could also be unuseful or even do damage to our society. As our society is a complexity of various kinds of people, organizations and communities with various objectives, scandals are becoming not so pure which are only aimed at discovering problems but act as tools to achieve the goals of these people and organizations. It is truly that these false scandals not only do damage to the victims and even do damage to our society, since they attract our attention by something that is not ever happened and they probably make the development of our society become more unstale. However, no one knows how to distinguish whether a scandal is true or false except another one shows another scandal to us that the previous scandal is not real but has other objectives under it.

To conclude, scandals it powerful since it can attracts the public's attention in the most efficient way. Simultaneouly, it can be useful for us to find problems existing in our society and also unhelpful if it is unreal and only performs as a tool by some bad organizations.