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issue185 第一篇啊写不长多指教
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.
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Scandal, a powerful word which refers offence to the moral sensibility of society, may seize public attention at a surprising speed. While scandals may alert the society in a distinct way, there are also some limitations since sandals can not retained well by people, and they imply that damage has already been formed.
Thanks to the sensational feature of scandals, they can easily attract ordinary people who are generally enthusiastic about explosive events to some social phenomena, negative always, in the shortest time. Say, the involvement of a hot basketball player in drug dealings, an illegal relationship between a government official and his secret lover, are they more likely to lift up one's ears than a tedious speech or a length lecture? Take a stunning incident in prison for example. Several months after coalition authorities took charge of Iraq, a photograph taken in one prison there was publicized and shocked the whole world-showing a prison commander taunting naked Iraqi prisoners who were forced to assume humiliating poses. Although almost every country has all along put great emphasis on army regulations, not until this scandal do the public aware the serious extent of soldier abuses. In such cases, people's attention might have been aroused by scandals quickly and at a large level.
Although scandals are of significant value to reveal the problems that are once hidden from the pubic, the effectiveness of scandals to prevent the bad is limited. Retention is one factor that should be considered. The impact on people from scandals is temporary. Many people, unfortunately, just view scandals as alarming stories happening on a screen of reality, which in a sense add some flavor to their plain and insipid life. Scandals like a rainbow in the sky, after the sky becomes clear again, seldom do people waste their time and energy to study it in depth.
On the other hand, when a scandal is publicized, usually the well-being of a few individuals or society as a whole has been jeopardized to some extent already. In 2003, when several Beijing government officials were publicized to hide the SARS epidemic from the public, the plague had become a national crisis and hundreds of innocent people, old and young, cost their lives. Sometimes, however, what we really need is a warning system that a scandal can never parallel to detect prospective danger. Similarly, when a bang is heard, too late, glass is broken.
To sum up, scandals grasp public attention easily. But the impact they bring about to people can not be maintained for a long time due to its sensational feature. What is more, scandals fail to predict potential problems until the harm is done to some individuals or society. Consequently, some other ways should be projected to aware people and prevent damage in advance. |
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